in Ancient Geography, a town in Phocis, on the Corinthian bay, opposite to Cirrha, lying to the west on the same bay. The Phocians seizing the temple of Apollo at Delphi, a war, called the Sacred, commenced, and lasted ten years; when Philip, father of Alexander the Great, avenged the god by destroying many of the cities of the pillagers. Anticyra was one of the number. It was again taken and subverted by Attilius a Roman general in the war with the Macedonians. It afterwards became famous for its heliobore. That drug was the root of a plant, the chief produce of the rocky mountains above the city, and of two kinds, the black, which had a purgative quality, and the white, which was an emetic. Sick persons resorted to Anticyra to take the medicine, which was prepared there by a peculiar and very excellent recipe: Hence the adage, Naviget Anticyram, (Horace). By the port in the second century was a temple of Neptune, not large, built with selected stones, and the inside white-washed: the statue of brass. The agora or market-place was adorned with images of the same metal; and above it was a well with a spring, sheltered from the sun by a roof supported by columns. A little higher was a monument formed with such stones as occurred, and designed, it was said, for the sons of Iphitus. One of these, Schedius, was killed by Hector, while fighting for the body of Patroclus, but his bones were transported to Anticyra; where his brother died after his return from Troy. About two stadia or a quarter of a mile distant was a high rock, a portion of the mountain, on which a temple of Diana stood; the image bigger than a large woman, and made