← Table of contents
The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Note 44 — BOOK XIII. (continued 2)

Charles Duke Yonge translation

Anticyra was the name of three islands celebrated as producing a great quantity of hellebore. Horace, speaking of a madman, says:

Si tribus Anticyris caput insanabile nunquam Tonsori Licino commiserit.—A. P. 300.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings