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SCIRTIA´NA

SCIRTIA´NA a station on the Egnatian road, between Brucida (Presba) and Castra or Parembole. The name is no doubt connected with that of the SCIRTONES (Σκίρτονες), whom Ptolemy (3.17.8 couples with the Dassaretian Pirustae as Illyrian tribes near Macedonia.

[E.B.J]

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