Pyrrhi Castra

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

PYRRHI CASTRA(Πύρρου χάραξ).

1. A fortress in the N. of Laconia, was probably at or near the junction of the Oenus and Eurotas, and is supposed to have been so named from having been the place of encampment of Pyrrhus, when he invaded Laconia in B.C. 272. (Plb. 5.19; Liv. 35.27; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 345.)


2. In Greek Illyria. [Vol. 1. 563a.]

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