CORYCIAN CAVE (CILICIA) (region)
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Twenty stadia above the promontory of Corycus lies the Corycian cave: a large round valley ringed by a high ridge of rock, its floor rocky and grown with shrubs and saffron, with a cave where a river of clear water rises and at once sinks underground to run to the sea. Strabo 14.5.5 Typhon, born of Earth and Tartarus in Cilicia, cut the sinews of Zeus' hands and feet, carried him through the sea to Cilicia and laid him in the Corycian cave; he hid the sinews there in a bearskin, guarded by the she-dragon Delphyne, until Hermes and Aegipan stole them back and fitted them to Zeus. Apollodorus 1.6.3