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Anticyra

Anticyra, a town in Thessaly in the district Malis at the mouth of the Spercheus. (Herod. vii. 198; Strab. pp. 418, 434.) According to Stephanus (s. v. Antikurai) the best hellebore was grown at this place, and one of its citizens exhibited the medicine to Heracles, when labouring under madness in this neighbourhood

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
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