Show Legends of the Buphiorsss It Is not certainly known why the Eo ° phoru the channel which nepa nitef Asia from Kurope Is to called 1on is Greek for ox or cow and porn a passage making the word signify passage or cow ford One legend conccralnfr the origin of else 1I ii nl ht r J name Is that the Phrygians desiring to cross the channel built a vessel on the proiv of which was placed the carved head of an ox and hence called the strait from the wooden figurehead Ibcoxtpoitage oTtotpont Itoaphorus teems to hot I a corruption of the original word which was silt without the h Another authority refers the origin of the name to the story of to who after she had been transformed trans-formed Into a caw again the strait to avoid her tormentor StI1Lancber tory tells us that the Phrygians were directed by an rack to follow this route taken by an or which when started In his capacity as leader of an army swam tbe strait which was ever after called the OI OrIli or ox passage 7r |