. "A town in Phocis , on a peninsula (which Pliny and Gellius erroneously call an island), on a bay of the Corinthian Gulf , now Aspra Spitia , famous for hellebore;" . "A town in Phocis , on a peninsula (which Pliny and Gellius erroneously call an island), on a bay of the Corinthian Gulf , now Aspra Spitia , famous for hellebore;" . .