GEPHY´RA
GEPHY´RA (
Γέφυρα,
Γφυρεῖς), a place in Attica at the bridge over the Cephissus, on the sacred road from Athens to Eleusis, where the initiated assailed passengers with vulgar abuse and raillery, hence called
ψεφυρισμοί. (
Strab. ix. p.404; Suid. s. v.
Γεφυρίζων; Hesych. sub voce Γεφυρισταί.)