Geronthræ

, a town of Laconia, where a yearly festival, called Geronthræa , was observed in honour of Mars. The god had there a temple with a grove, into which no woman was permitted to enter during the time of the solemnity. Pausanias , Laconia . ♦ Gerrhæ , a people of Scythia, in whose country the Borysthenes rises. The kings of Scythia were generally buried in their territories. Pausanias , bk. 4 , ch. 71 . ♦ ‘Gerhæ’ replaced with ‘Gerrhæ’