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After passing the places mentioned, one comes to the grotto of Aulion and the river Callichorus, Of beautiful dances. which owes its name to the fact that Bacchus, when he had after three years vanquished the peoples of India, returned to those regions, and on the green and shady banks of that river renewed the former orgies and dances;Val. Flacc. v. 75. some think that this kind of festival was also called trieterica.As celebrated every third year; cf. Virg., Aen. iv. 302.
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Beyond these territories are the populous districts of the Camaritae,Bands of pirates, using small ships called camarae. and the Phasis in impetuous course borders on the Colchians, an ancient race of Egyptian origin. There,Cf. Hdt. ii. 103-4; Val. Flacc. v. 418 ff. among other cities, is Phasis, which gets its name from the river, and Dioscurias, well known even to this day, said to have been founded by Amphitus and Cercius of Sparta, the charioteers of Castor and Pollux, and founders of the nation of the Heniochi.From ἡνίοχος, charioteer; Dioscurias is derived from Dioscuri, i.e. (διόσκουροι), the sons of Zeus, Castor and Polydeuces (Pollux).
