Anticyra

Anticyra, (1) the modern Aspraspitia, an ancient Greek town in Phocis, built on a peninsula in a bay on the Corinthian Gulf. In its neighbourhood grew the best hellebore, a sovereign remedy with the ancients for madness, hence the well-known proverb, Naviget Anticyram ('Let him sail to Anticyra'), spoken of a person when he acted senselessly.—(2) A town of Thessaly, on the Sinus Maliacus, also noted for its hellebore.—(3) A town of Locris, at the entrance of the Corinthian Gulf, often confounded with the Anticyra in Phocis. Horace (Ars Poetica, 300) speaks as if all three places produced hellebore, Tribus Anticyris caput insanabile ('a head not to be cured by the three Anticyras').