Near it was the outlet into the sea of the Acherusian Lake. Strabo (7.7.5) gives the same information and adds that in his time Ephyra was called Kichyros. The name had been changed from Ephyra back to the more ancient name about 200 years earlier.

Mythology

According to legend, Cichyrus was named after - and founded on - the spot where Cichyrus, the son of the Chaonian king, died after falling from his horse into

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