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Then comes the mountain of Triphylia that separates Macistia
from Pisatis; then another river called Chalcis, and a spring called Cruni, and
a settlement called Chalcis, and, after these, Samicum, where is the most highly
revered temple of the Samian Poseidon. About the temple is a sacred precinct full
of wild olive trees. The people of Macistum used to have charge over it; and it
was they, too, who used to proclaim the armistice day called "Samian." But all
the Triphylians contribute to the maintenance of the temple.
There is in Samicum a cave not far from the river, and called the Cave of the Anigrid Nymphs. Whoever enters it suffering from alphos or leuke first has to pray to the nymphs and to promise some sacrifice or other, after which he wipes the unhealthy parts of his body. Then, swimming through the river, he leaves his old uncleanness in its water, coming up sound and of one color.
At the base of these mountains, on the seaboard, are two caves. One is the cave of the nymphs called Anigriades; the other is the scene of the stories of the daughters of Atlas and of the birth of Dardanus. And here, too, are the sacred precincts called the Ionaeum and the Eurycydeium.
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