Gerontius

Gerontius (/dʒɪˈrɒntiəs, ɡɪˈrɒntiəs/; Latinized Greek for 'old man') can refer to:

Music and literature

• The Dream of Gerontius, a 1900 choral work by Edward Elgar, a setting of a poem of the same name by John Henry Newman
• The Dream of Gerontius, the poem by John Henry Newman

People

• Gerontius (bishop of Milan), bishop of Milan (462-465)
• Gerontius of Cervia, 6th-century Italian bishop
• Gerontius, Metropolitan of Moscow, 1473-1489
• Gerontius (magister militum), early 5th-century Roman general
• Gerontius (commander), early 4th-century Roman commander of Tomis

Fiction

• Gerontius, a 1989 novel by James Hamilton-Paterson
• Gerontius, the given name of the Old Took, a hobbit mentioned in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy series The Lord of the Rings

See also

• Geraint (given name) (the Welsh form of Gerontius)

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