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.
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