Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Antecessōres, Anticyra

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A town in Phocis, on a bay of the Crissaean Gulf.

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A town in Thessaly, on the Spercheus, not far from its mouth. Both towns were celebrated for their hellebore, the chief remedy in antiquity for madness: hence the proverb naviget Anticyram when a person acted senselessly ( Hor. Sat. ii. 3.166).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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