Anagyrous

He once exterminated an entire family who had cut trees from his sacred grove—hence the ancient proverb, "Anagryasion Daimon".

Another version derives from the plant Anagyris Anagyris foetida, the stinking bean trefoil , referred to as emetic and laxative by Dioscorides (9-79 AD) in his monumental De materia medica [7] , and as an exorcism of ill fate by the Byzantine Suidas dictionary.

In this context may also be mentioned a punning exchange near the beginning of Aristophanes’s comedy Lysistrata: [Several women enter, headed by MYRRHINA, from the deme of Anagyrous.

* A further layer of meaning can be guessed at in the pun: some commentators have inferred that a playful (possibly traditional) jibe at the inhabitants of Anagyrous may have been intended - to the effect that the Anagyrasians were notably smelly, because their personal hygiene was poor.

"... εν ταις πλησίον μυρρίναις, δασείες ούσες και πυκνές, καθεύδοντι δε εσμός μελισσών εν τοις χείλεσι αυτού καθίσασαι, υπήδον την του Πλάτωνος ευγλωττία μαντευόμεναι."

(En tais plesion myrrinais, daseies ouses kai pyknes, katheudonti de esmos melisson en tois cheilesi autou kathisasai, upedon ten tou Platonos euglottia mantevomenai).

"... nearby the myrtle plants, dense and leafy as they were, and while he was sleeping, a swarm of bees sat peacefully on his lips, thus surmising the eloquence of Plato."