GERRU´NIUM
GERRU´NIUM a fortress of Phaebates, a district of the Dassaretii on the Illyrian border of Macedonia, which was taken and sacked by L. Apustius, a Roman officer, detached by Sulpicius, to ravage the territory of Philip, in the breaking out of the war against that prince. (
Liv. 31.27.) Gerrunium (Gertunium?) is the same place as the GERTUS (
Γερτοῦς), a place on the frontier of Dassaretia, which Scerdelaïdas had taken from Philip, and which the latter retook in the second year of the Social War (
Plb. 5.108). GERUS (
Γεροῦς), mentioned in the same chapter of Polybius, is a different place from Gerrunium, which was, probably, lower down on the valley of the
Uzumi than Antipatria (
Berát), perhaps near the junction of the
Uzúmi and
Devól. (Leake,
Trav. in North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 327.)
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