title: Gerontius
text: # 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
  