Name of an island.
*go/rtus: o)/noma nh/sou.
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.
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