[336] Γερήνιος. When Pylos was sacked by Heracles, so the old story ran, and Nestor's eleven brothers were slain, Nestor alone escaped, for he was being cared for “ἐν Γερήνοις” (scholium), a Messenian people or place. So he was called Gerenian. It is altogether probable, however, that the story is fanciful, and that the name is a relic of a remote past which even the later epic poets themselves were unfamiliar with.
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Selections from Homer's Iliad, with an introduction, notes, a short Homeric grammar, and a vocabulary. Allen Rogers Benner. New York. Irvington Publishers, Inc. 1903.
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