Γόρτυς
Gortys
Translated by David Whitehead13 Oct 2000Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Name of an island.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Γόρτυς· ὄνομα νήσου.
Betacode
*go/rtus: o)/noma nh/sou.
Notes
- Otherwise unattested as such. (There is, however, a small city called Gortys in the central Peloponnese.)
Claudius Ptolemy gives a 'Gurtone' in Tymphaia and Polybius 5.108 mentions a 'Gertous' of the Dassaretes, possibly identical with a 'Gerrunium' mentioned by Livy 31.27. Any of these cities may have been on islands in the several large lakes of northern Greece.