Scardus
Scardus, SCODRUS, SCORDUS MONS (τὸ Σκάρδον ὄρος, Plb. 28.8; Ptol. 2.16. §), the desolate heights which are mentioned incidentally by Livy (43.20, 44.31) as lying in the way from Stymbara to Scodra, and as giving rise to the Oriuns. They seem to have comprehended the great summits on either side of the Drilo, where its course is from E. to W. (Leake, Northern Greece vol. iii. p. 477.) In Kiepert's map (Europaïschen Turkei) Scardus (Schar-Dagh) extends from the Ljubatrin to Shalesh; over this there is a col
from Kalkandele to Prisdren not less than 5000 feet above the level of the sea. According to the nomenclature of Grisebach, Scardus reaches from the Ljubatrin at its NE. extremity to the SW. and S. as far as the Klissoura of Devol; S. of that point Pindus commences in a continuation of the same axis.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.