ANAPHLYSTUS
ANAPHLYSTUS (
Ἀνάφλυστος: Eth.
Ἀναφλύστιος:
Anáuyso), a demus of Attica, belonging to the tribe Antiochis, on the W. coast of Attica, opposite the island of Eleussa, and a little N. of the promontory of Sunium.
It was a place of some importance. Xenophon recommended the erection of a fortress here for the protection of the mines of Sunium. (
Hdt. 4.99;
Scylax, p. 21;
Xen. de Vectig. 4 § 43; Strab. p. 398; Leake,
Demi, p. 59.)