Crossword-Solution: ANTICYRA
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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According to this hypothesis, the flowers of Parnassus must be blended with the drugs of Anticyra; and the man who feels himself to be in possession of very brilliant wits may conclude that he is within an ace of running out of them.
The appreciative lines run thus: _This oval box well filled With best tobacco, finely milled, Beats all Anticyra's pretences To disengage the encumbered senses.
From its abundant growth in the Grecian island of Anticyra arose the proverb: _Naviget Anticyram_--"Take a voyage to Anticyra," as applied by way of advice to a man who has lost his reason.
For the space of a golden hour he held the _remedium_ in his grasp, he felt its life-giving influence course through his frame, he tasted again of health and strength and manhood, he saw before him years of success and power and triumph! In comparison to it the bath of Pelias, though endowed with the virtues which lying Medea attributed to it, had not seemed more desirable, nor the elixir of life, nor the herb of Anticyra.
ANTICYRA.= Three places of this name are known from ancient sources; it is not known which of them Ovid had in mind.