(3 syl.), now called the Dardanelles, means the “sea of Helle,”
and was so called because Helle, the sister of Phryxos, was drowned
there. She was fleeing with her brother through the air to Colchis on
the golden ram to escape from Ino, her mother-in-law, who most
cruelly oppressed her, but turning giddy, she fell into the sea.
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