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of Panopolis in Egypt, and seems to have lived
7. Nonius AspreNAS had the title of proconsul shortly before the time of Agathias (iv. p. 128),
in B. C. 46, and served under Caesar in the African who mentions him among the recent (véoi) poets.
war, in that year, and also in the Spanish war, B. C. Whether he is the same person as the Nonnus
45. (Auct. B. Afr. 80, Hisp. 10. )
whose son Sosena is recommended by Synesius to
8. C. Nonius ASPRENAS, probably a son of his friends Anastasius and Pylaemenes, is uncer-
the preceding, was accused, in B. c. 9, of poisoning tain. (Synes. Ep. ad Anast. 43, ad Pylaem. 102. )
130 guests at a banquet, but the number in Pliny Respecting his life nothing is known, except that
is probably corrupt, and ought to be thirty. The he was a Christian, whence he cannot be confounded
accusation was conducted by Cassius Severus, and with the Nonnus mentioned by Suidas (s. v. La-
the defence by Asinius Pollio. The speeches of Novotios). He is the author of an enormous epic
these orators at this trial were very celebrated in poem, which has come down to us under the name
antiquity, and the perusal of them is strongly of Alovvolaná or Bacoapıká, and consists of forty-
recommended by Quinctilian. Asprenas was an eight books. As the subject of the poem is a pagan
intimate friend of Augustus, and was acquitted divinity and a number of mythological stories, some
through the influence of the emperor. (Plin. H. N. writers have supposed that it was written previous
xxxv. 12. 8. 46 ; Suet. Aug. 56 ; Dion Cass. lv. to his conversion to Christianity or that it was
4 ; Quinct. x. l. § 23. ) In his youth, Asprenas composed in ridicule of the theology of the pagans ;
was injured by a fall while performing in the but neither opinion appears to be founded on any
Ludus Trojae before Augustus, and received in sound argument, for it does not appear why a
consequence from the emperor a golden chain, and Christian should not have amused himself with
the permission to assume the surname of Torquatus, writing a poem on pagan subjects. The poem it-
both for himself and his posterity. (Suet. Aug. self shows that Nonnus had no idea whatever of
43. ) The Torquatus, to whom Horace addresses what a poetical composition should be, and it is, as
two of his poems (Carm. iv. 7, Sat. i. 5), is sup. Heinsius characterises it, more like a chaos than a
posed by Weichert and others, to be the same literary production. Although the professed sub-
as this Nonius Asprenas, since all the Manlii ject of the poem is Dionysus, Nonnus begins with
Torquati appear to have perished, which was the the story of Zeus carrying off Europa ; he proceeds
reason probably why Augustus gave him the to relate the fight of Typhonus with Zeus; the
ancient and honourable surname of Torquatus. story of Cadmus and the foundation of Thebes,
Some modern writers have supposed that the the stories of Actaeon, Persephone, the birth of
C. Asprenas, who was accused of poisoning, was Zagreus and the deluge, and at length, in the
the same as the proconsul of this name in the seventh book, he relates the birth of Dionysus.
African war [ No. 7] ; but Weichert has brought | The first six or seven books are so completely de-
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The remaining books are patched together in the Physic, vol. i. ; Sprengel, I list. de la Nléd. , vol. ii. ;
same manner, without any coherence or subordina- Haller, Bibl. Medic. Pract. vol. i. ; Fabric. Bibl.
tion of less important to more important parts. Gr. vol. xii. p. 685, ed. vet. ; Choulant, Handb.
The style of the work is bombastic and infinted in der Bücherkunde für die Aeltere Med. ) (W. A. G. )
the highest degree ; but the author shows con- NORAX (N@pak), a son of Hermes and Ery-
siderable learning and fluency of narration. The thein, the daughter of Geryones, is said to have led
work is mentioned by Agathias, repeatedly by an Iberian colony to Sardinia, and to have founded
Eustathius in his commentary on Homer, and the town of Norah (Paus. x. 17. § 4. ) (L. S. ]
in the Etymologicum Magnum (s. v. Alórvous). NORBANUS, occurs as a name of several dis-
There is an epigram in which Nonnus speaks of tinguished Romans towards the latter end of the
himself as the author of a poem on the right of the republic, but they appear to have had no gentile
Gigantes, but it seems that this is not a distinct mme. Many modern writers suppose that C.
work, but refers to the fight of Zeus and the Norbanus, who was consul v. c. 83 (see below, No.
Gigantes related in the first books of the Dionysiaca. ? ), belonged to the Junin gens, but for this there
The first edition that was published is that ofis no authority whatsoever. In fact, Norbanus
G. Falckenburg, Antwerp, 1569, 4to. In 1605 an came to be looked upon as a kind of gentile name,
octavo edition, with a Latin translation, appeared and hence a cognomen was attached to it. Thus,
at Hanau. A reprint of it, with a dissertation by in some of the Fasti, the C. Norbanus just men-
D. Heinsius, and emendations by Jos. Scaliger, tioned bears the cognomen Balbus or Bulbus ; and
was published at Leiden in 1510,8vo. A new edi. subsequently several of the family are called by
tion, with a critical and explanatory commentary, the surname of Flaccus. It is quite uncertain to
was edited by F. Graefe, Leipzig, 1819–1826, in which member of the family the following coin be-
2 vols. 8vo.
longs. It bears on the obverse the head of Venus,
A second work of Nonnus, which has all the and on the reverse ears of corn, a caduceus, and
defects that have been censured in the Dionysiaca, fasces with an axe. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 262. )
is a paraphrase of the gospel of St. John in Hexa-
The first edition of it was published
by Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1501, 4to. ; and sub-
sequently others appeared at Rome, 1508, Hage-
nau, 1527, 8vo. with an epistle of Phil. Melanch-
thon, Frankfort, 1541; Paris, 1541, 1556 ; Goslar,
1616; Cologne, 1566. It was also repeatedly
translated into Latin, and several editions appeared
with Latin versions. The most important of these
is that of D. Heinsius, Lugd. Bat. 1627, 8vo.
There is further a collection and exposition of
various stories and fables, bearing the titles of 1. C. NORBANUS, was tribune of the plebs, B. C.
Luvaywari kal ébrynais iotopwv, which is ascribed 95, when he accused Q. Servilius Caepio of majes-
to Nonnus, and was published at Eton in 1610, tas, because he had robbed the temple of Tolosa in
4to. by R. Montacutius. But Bentley (Upon the his consulship, B. c. 106, and had by his rash-
Ep. of Phalaris, p. 17, &c. ) has shown that this ness and imprudence occasioned the defeat and
collection is the production of a far more ignorant destruction of the Roman army by the Cimbri, in
person than Nonnus.
(Comp. Fabricius, Bibl. the following year (B. c. 105). The senate, to
Graec. vol. viii. p. 601, &c. ; Ouwaroff, Nonnus whom Caepio had by a lex restored the judicia in
con Panopolis der Dichter, ein Beitrag zur Gesch. his consulship, but of which they had been again
der Griech. Poesie, Petersburg and Leipzig, 1817, deprived two years afterwards, made the greatest
4to. )
(L. S. ] efforts to obtain his acquittal ; but, notwithstand-
NONNUS, THEO'PHANES, (eoparnis Nóv- ing these exertions, and the powerful advocacy of
vos,) sometimes called Nonus, a Greek medical writer | the great orator L. Crassus, who was then consul,
who lived in the tenth century after Christ, as his he was condemned by the people, and went into
work is dedicated to the emperor Constantinus exile at Smyrna. The disturbances, however,
Porphyrogenitus, A. D. 911-959, at whose com- which took place at his trial, afforded the enemies
mand it was composed. Though commonly called of Norbanus a fair pretext for his accusation ; and
Nonnus, it is supposed by some persons that his in the following year (B. C. 94), he was accordingly
real name was Theophanes. His work is entitled accused of majestas under the lex Appuleia. The
'Επιτομή της Ιατρικής απάσης Τέχνης, Com- | accusation was conducted by P. Sulpicius Rufus ;
pendium totius Artis Medicae, and consists of two and the defence by the celebrated orator M.
hundred and ninety short chapters; it is compiled Antonius, under whom Norbanus had formerly
almost entirely from previous writers, especially served as quaestor, and who gives in the De Ora-
Alexander Trallianus, Aëtius, and Paulus Aegi- tore of Cicero a very interesting account of the line
neta, whom, however, he does not once mention of argument which he adopted on the occasion.
by name. Almost the only point worthy of notice is Norbanus was acquitted. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 48,
that (according to Sprengel) he is the earliest Greek | 49, iii. 21, 25, 39, 40, Orat. Part. 30; Val. Max.
medical writer, who makes distinct mention of dis-viii. 5. § 2 ; Meyer, Frugm. Rom. Orator p. 287,
tilled rose-water, an article which his countrymen &c. , 2d ed. )
seem to bare gained from the Arabians. It was In B. C. 90 or 89, Norbanus was praetor in
first published by Jeremias Martius, Greek and Sicily during the Social or Marsic war, but no at-
Latin, Argent. , 8vo. 1569 ; and afterwards, in a tempt at insurrection occurred in the island. (Cic.
much improved form, in 1794, 1795, 8vo. two vols. , leir. v. 4, comp. iii. 49. ) In B. c. 88 he came to
Gothae et Ainstel. , edited by J. S. Bernard, and the assistance of the town of Rhegium, which was
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very nearly falling into the hands of the Samnites, I had a daughter called Melinna Three of her epi-
who, taking advantage of the civil commotions at grams were published for the first time by Bent-
Rome, had formed the design of invading Sicily. I ley; and the whole twelve are given by J. C.
(Diod. Eclog. xxxvii. p. 540, ed. Wesseling. The Wolf, Poetriarum cclo Frugin. &c. , Hamb. 1734,
text of Diodorus has fáïos 'Opbavós, for which we by A. Schneider, l'octriurum Gruec. Fragm.
ought undoubtedly to read with Wesseling, ráños Giessae, 1802, by Brunck, Anal. vet. Poel. Gr.
Nopbavós. ) In the civil wars Norbanus espoused vol. i. , and by Jacobs, Anth. Gruec. vol. i. (Comp.
the Marian party, and was consul in B. C. 83 with Fabric. Bill. Gruec. vol. i. p. 133 ; Bentley, Dis-
Scipio Asiaticus. In this year Sulla crossed over scrtution upon the Epistles of Phuluris, pp. 256,
from Greece to Italy, and marched from Brundisium 257, Lond. 1777. )
into Campania, where Norbanus was waiting for NOTHIPPUS, a tragic poet, with whom we
him, on the Vulturnus at the foot of Mount Tifata, / are only acquainted through a fragment of the
not far from Capua. Sulla at first sent deputies to Morirue of the comic poet Hermippus, who
Norbanus under the pretext of treating respecting a describes Nothippus as an enormous eater. (Athen.
peace, but evidently with the design of tampering viii. p. 344, c, d. )
with his troops ; but they could not effect their pur- NOVATIANUS, according to Philostorgius,
pose, and returned to Sulla after being insulted whose statement, however, has not been generally
and maltreated by the other side. Thereupon a received with confidence, was a native of Phrygia.
general engagement ensued, the issue of which was From the accounts given of his baptism, which his
not long doubtful; the raw levies of Norbanus enemies alleged was irregularly administered in
were unable to resist the first charge of Sulla's consequence of his having been prevented by
veterans, and fed in all directions, and it was not sickness from receiving imposition of hands, it
till they reached the walls of Capua that Norbanus would appear that in early life he was a gentile ;
was able to rally them again. Six or seven thou- but the assertion found in many modern works
sand of his men fell in this battle, while Sulla's that he was devoted to the stoic philosophy is not
loss is said to have been only seventy. Appian, supported by the testimony of any ancient writer.
contrary to all the other authorities, places this. There can be no doubt that he became a presbyter
battle near Canusium in Apulia, but it is not im- of the church at Rome, that he insisted upon the
probable, as Drumann has conjectured (Geschichte rigorous and perpetual exclusion of the Lapsi, the
Röms, vol. ii. p. 459), that he wrote Casilinum, a weak brethren who had fallen away from the faith
town on the Vulturnus. In the following year, under the terrors of persecution, and that upon the
B. C. 82, Norbanus joined the consul Carbo in Cis-election of Cornelius (CORNELIUS], who advocated
alpine Gaul, but their united forces were entirely more charitable opinions, to the Roman see in
defeated by Metellus Pius. (METELLUS, No. 19. ] June, a. D. 251, about sixteen months after the
This may be said to have given the death-blow to the martyrdom of Fabianus, he disowned the authority
Marian party in Italy. Desertion from their ranks of the new pontiff, was himself consecrated bishop
rapidly followed, and Albinovanus, who had been by a rival party, was condemned by the council
entrusted with the command of Ariminum, invited held in the autumn of the same year, and after a
Norbanus and his principal officers to a banquet. vain struggle to maintain his position was obliged
Norbanus suspected treachery, and declined the to give way, and became the founder of a new
invitation ; the rest accepted it and were murdered. sect, who from him derived the name of Noratians.
Norbanus succeeded in making his escape from We are told, moreover, that he was a man of un-
Italy, and fled to Rhodes ; but his person having sociable, treacherous, and wolf-like disposition, that
been demanded by Sulla, he killed himself in the his ordination was performed by three simple
middle of the market-place, while the Rhodians illiterate prelates from an obscure corner of Italy,
were consulting whether they should obey the com- whom he gained to his purpose by a most disrepu-
mands of the dictator. (Appian, B. C. i. 82, 84, table artifice, that these poor men quickly perceived,
86, 91; Liv. Epit. 85 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 25 ; Plut. confessed, and lamented their error, and ibat those
Sull. 27; Oros. v. 20 ; Flor. iii. 21. § 18. ) persons who had at first espoused his cause quickly
2. NORBANUS FLACCUS. (Flaccus. ]
returned to their duty, leaving the schismatic
3. APPIUS NORBANUS, who defeated Antonius almost alone. We must observe that these au-
in the reign of Domitian, is more usually called verse representations proceed from his bitter enemy
Appius Maximus. [MAXIMUS, p. 986, b. ) Cornelius, being contained in a long letter from
4. NORBANUS, praefectus praetorio under Do- that pope to Fabius, of Antioch, preserved in
mitian, was privy to the death of that emperor. Eusebius, that they bear evident marks of personal
(Dion Cass. Ixvii. 15. )
rancour, and that they are contradicted by the
5. NORBANUS LICINIANUS, one of the infamous circumstance that Novatianus was commissioned in
servants of Domitian, was banished (relegatus) in 250 by the Roman clergy to write a letter in their
the reign of Trajan. (Plin. Ep. iii. 9. )
name to Cyprian which is still extant, by the
6. NORBANUS, banished by Commodus. (Lam- respect and popularity which he unquestionably
prid. Commod. 4. )
enjoyed after his assumption of the episcopal dig-
NO'RTIA or NU'RTIA, an Etruscan divinity, nity, even among those who did not recognise his
who was worshipped at Volsinii, where a nail was authority, and by the fact that a numerous and
driven every year into the wall of her temple, for devoted band of followers espousing his cause
the purpose of marking the number of years. (Liv. formed a separate communion, which spread over
vii. 3 ; Juvenal, x. 74. )
[L. S. ] the whole Christian world, and flourished for more
NOSSIS, a Greek poetess, of Locri in Southern than two hundred years. The career of Novatia-
Italy, lived about B. c. 310, and is the author of nus, after the termination of his struggle with
twelve epigrams of considerable beauty, extant in Cornelius, is unknown ; but we are told by So-
the Greek Anthology. From these we learn that crates (H. E. iv. 28) that he suffered death under
her mother's name was Theuphila, and that she Valerian ; and from Pacianus, who flourished in the
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Novatians boasted that their founder was a martyr. the close of A. v. 250. If composed under these
The original and distinguishing tenet of these circumstances, as maintained by Jackson, it refutes
heretics was, as we have indicated above, that no in a most satisfactory manner the charges brought
one who after baptism had, through dread of per- by Cornelius in reference to the conduct of Nova-
secution or from any other cause, fallen away from tianus at this epoch. The author denies that the
the faith, could, however sincere his contrition, again | Mosaic ordinances, with regard to meats, are
be received into the bosom of the church, or entertain binding upon Christians, but strongly recommends
sure hope of salvation. It would appear that subse-moderation and strict abstinence from flesh offered
quently this rigorous exclusion was extended to all to idols.
who had been guilty of any of the greater or mortal III. Epistolae. Two letters, of which the first
sina ; and, if we can trust the expression of St. Am is certainly genuine, written a. D. 250, in the
brose (De Poen. iii. 3), Novatianus himself altoge- name of the Roman clergy to Cyprian, when a
ther rejected the efficacy of repentance, and denied vacancy occurred in the p:ipal see in consequence
that forgiveness could be granted to any sin, whether of the martyrdom of Fabianus, on the 13th of
small or great. There can be no doubt that com. February, A. D. 250.
munion was refused to all great offenders, but we The two best editions of the collected works of
feel inclined to believe that Socrates (H. E. iv. 28) Novatianus are those of Welchman (8vo. Oxon.
represents these opinions, as first promulgated, | 172+), and of Jackson ( 8vo. Lond. 1728). The
more fairly when he states, that Novatianus merely latter is in every respect superior, presenting us with
would not admit that the church had power to for- an excellent text, very useful prolegomena, notes
give and grant participation in her mysteries to and indices. The tracts De Trinitate and De Cibis
great offenders, while at the same time he exhorted | Judaicis will be found in almost all editions of Ter-
them to repentance, and referred their case directly tullian from the Parisian impression of 1545 down-
to the decision of God - views which were likely | wards. (Hieronym. de Viris Ill.
of Panopolis in Egypt, and seems to have lived
7. Nonius AspreNAS had the title of proconsul shortly before the time of Agathias (iv. p. 128),
in B. C. 46, and served under Caesar in the African who mentions him among the recent (véoi) poets.
war, in that year, and also in the Spanish war, B. C. Whether he is the same person as the Nonnus
45. (Auct. B. Afr. 80, Hisp. 10. )
whose son Sosena is recommended by Synesius to
8. C. Nonius ASPRENAS, probably a son of his friends Anastasius and Pylaemenes, is uncer-
the preceding, was accused, in B. c. 9, of poisoning tain. (Synes. Ep. ad Anast. 43, ad Pylaem. 102. )
130 guests at a banquet, but the number in Pliny Respecting his life nothing is known, except that
is probably corrupt, and ought to be thirty. The he was a Christian, whence he cannot be confounded
accusation was conducted by Cassius Severus, and with the Nonnus mentioned by Suidas (s. v. La-
the defence by Asinius Pollio. The speeches of Novotios). He is the author of an enormous epic
these orators at this trial were very celebrated in poem, which has come down to us under the name
antiquity, and the perusal of them is strongly of Alovvolaná or Bacoapıká, and consists of forty-
recommended by Quinctilian. Asprenas was an eight books. As the subject of the poem is a pagan
intimate friend of Augustus, and was acquitted divinity and a number of mythological stories, some
through the influence of the emperor. (Plin. H. N. writers have supposed that it was written previous
xxxv. 12. 8. 46 ; Suet. Aug. 56 ; Dion Cass. lv. to his conversion to Christianity or that it was
4 ; Quinct. x. l. § 23. ) In his youth, Asprenas composed in ridicule of the theology of the pagans ;
was injured by a fall while performing in the but neither opinion appears to be founded on any
Ludus Trojae before Augustus, and received in sound argument, for it does not appear why a
consequence from the emperor a golden chain, and Christian should not have amused himself with
the permission to assume the surname of Torquatus, writing a poem on pagan subjects. The poem it-
both for himself and his posterity. (Suet. Aug. self shows that Nonnus had no idea whatever of
43. ) The Torquatus, to whom Horace addresses what a poetical composition should be, and it is, as
two of his poems (Carm. iv. 7, Sat. i. 5), is sup. Heinsius characterises it, more like a chaos than a
posed by Weichert and others, to be the same literary production. Although the professed sub-
as this Nonius Asprenas, since all the Manlii ject of the poem is Dionysus, Nonnus begins with
Torquati appear to have perished, which was the the story of Zeus carrying off Europa ; he proceeds
reason probably why Augustus gave him the to relate the fight of Typhonus with Zeus; the
ancient and honourable surname of Torquatus. story of Cadmus and the foundation of Thebes,
Some modern writers have supposed that the the stories of Actaeon, Persephone, the birth of
C. Asprenas, who was accused of poisoning, was Zagreus and the deluge, and at length, in the
the same as the proconsul of this name in the seventh book, he relates the birth of Dionysus.
African war [ No. 7] ; but Weichert has brought | The first six or seven books are so completely de-
forward sufficient reasons to render it much more void of any connecting link, that any one of them
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might by itself be regarded as a separnte work. / published after his death. (See Freind's llist. of
The remaining books are patched together in the Physic, vol. i. ; Sprengel, I list. de la Nléd. , vol. ii. ;
same manner, without any coherence or subordina- Haller, Bibl. Medic. Pract. vol. i. ; Fabric. Bibl.
tion of less important to more important parts. Gr. vol. xii. p. 685, ed. vet. ; Choulant, Handb.
The style of the work is bombastic and infinted in der Bücherkunde für die Aeltere Med. ) (W. A. G. )
the highest degree ; but the author shows con- NORAX (N@pak), a son of Hermes and Ery-
siderable learning and fluency of narration. The thein, the daughter of Geryones, is said to have led
work is mentioned by Agathias, repeatedly by an Iberian colony to Sardinia, and to have founded
Eustathius in his commentary on Homer, and the town of Norah (Paus. x. 17. § 4. ) (L. S. ]
in the Etymologicum Magnum (s. v. Alórvous). NORBANUS, occurs as a name of several dis-
There is an epigram in which Nonnus speaks of tinguished Romans towards the latter end of the
himself as the author of a poem on the right of the republic, but they appear to have had no gentile
Gigantes, but it seems that this is not a distinct mme. Many modern writers suppose that C.
work, but refers to the fight of Zeus and the Norbanus, who was consul v. c. 83 (see below, No.
Gigantes related in the first books of the Dionysiaca. ? ), belonged to the Junin gens, but for this there
The first edition that was published is that ofis no authority whatsoever. In fact, Norbanus
G. Falckenburg, Antwerp, 1569, 4to. In 1605 an came to be looked upon as a kind of gentile name,
octavo edition, with a Latin translation, appeared and hence a cognomen was attached to it. Thus,
at Hanau. A reprint of it, with a dissertation by in some of the Fasti, the C. Norbanus just men-
D. Heinsius, and emendations by Jos. Scaliger, tioned bears the cognomen Balbus or Bulbus ; and
was published at Leiden in 1510,8vo. A new edi. subsequently several of the family are called by
tion, with a critical and explanatory commentary, the surname of Flaccus. It is quite uncertain to
was edited by F. Graefe, Leipzig, 1819–1826, in which member of the family the following coin be-
2 vols. 8vo.
longs. It bears on the obverse the head of Venus,
A second work of Nonnus, which has all the and on the reverse ears of corn, a caduceus, and
defects that have been censured in the Dionysiaca, fasces with an axe. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 262. )
is a paraphrase of the gospel of St. John in Hexa-
The first edition of it was published
by Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1501, 4to. ; and sub-
sequently others appeared at Rome, 1508, Hage-
nau, 1527, 8vo. with an epistle of Phil. Melanch-
thon, Frankfort, 1541; Paris, 1541, 1556 ; Goslar,
1616; Cologne, 1566. It was also repeatedly
translated into Latin, and several editions appeared
with Latin versions. The most important of these
is that of D. Heinsius, Lugd. Bat. 1627, 8vo.
There is further a collection and exposition of
various stories and fables, bearing the titles of 1. C. NORBANUS, was tribune of the plebs, B. C.
Luvaywari kal ébrynais iotopwv, which is ascribed 95, when he accused Q. Servilius Caepio of majes-
to Nonnus, and was published at Eton in 1610, tas, because he had robbed the temple of Tolosa in
4to. by R. Montacutius. But Bentley (Upon the his consulship, B. c. 106, and had by his rash-
Ep. of Phalaris, p. 17, &c. ) has shown that this ness and imprudence occasioned the defeat and
collection is the production of a far more ignorant destruction of the Roman army by the Cimbri, in
person than Nonnus.
(Comp. Fabricius, Bibl. the following year (B. c. 105). The senate, to
Graec. vol. viii. p. 601, &c. ; Ouwaroff, Nonnus whom Caepio had by a lex restored the judicia in
con Panopolis der Dichter, ein Beitrag zur Gesch. his consulship, but of which they had been again
der Griech. Poesie, Petersburg and Leipzig, 1817, deprived two years afterwards, made the greatest
4to. )
(L. S. ] efforts to obtain his acquittal ; but, notwithstand-
NONNUS, THEO'PHANES, (eoparnis Nóv- ing these exertions, and the powerful advocacy of
vos,) sometimes called Nonus, a Greek medical writer | the great orator L. Crassus, who was then consul,
who lived in the tenth century after Christ, as his he was condemned by the people, and went into
work is dedicated to the emperor Constantinus exile at Smyrna. The disturbances, however,
Porphyrogenitus, A. D. 911-959, at whose com- which took place at his trial, afforded the enemies
mand it was composed. Though commonly called of Norbanus a fair pretext for his accusation ; and
Nonnus, it is supposed by some persons that his in the following year (B. C. 94), he was accordingly
real name was Theophanes. His work is entitled accused of majestas under the lex Appuleia. The
'Επιτομή της Ιατρικής απάσης Τέχνης, Com- | accusation was conducted by P. Sulpicius Rufus ;
pendium totius Artis Medicae, and consists of two and the defence by the celebrated orator M.
hundred and ninety short chapters; it is compiled Antonius, under whom Norbanus had formerly
almost entirely from previous writers, especially served as quaestor, and who gives in the De Ora-
Alexander Trallianus, Aëtius, and Paulus Aegi- tore of Cicero a very interesting account of the line
neta, whom, however, he does not once mention of argument which he adopted on the occasion.
by name. Almost the only point worthy of notice is Norbanus was acquitted. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 48,
that (according to Sprengel) he is the earliest Greek | 49, iii. 21, 25, 39, 40, Orat. Part. 30; Val. Max.
medical writer, who makes distinct mention of dis-viii. 5. § 2 ; Meyer, Frugm. Rom. Orator p. 287,
tilled rose-water, an article which his countrymen &c. , 2d ed. )
seem to bare gained from the Arabians. It was In B. C. 90 or 89, Norbanus was praetor in
first published by Jeremias Martius, Greek and Sicily during the Social or Marsic war, but no at-
Latin, Argent. , 8vo. 1569 ; and afterwards, in a tempt at insurrection occurred in the island. (Cic.
much improved form, in 1794, 1795, 8vo. two vols. , leir. v. 4, comp. iii. 49. ) In B. c. 88 he came to
Gothae et Ainstel. , edited by J. S. Bernard, and the assistance of the town of Rhegium, which was
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very nearly falling into the hands of the Samnites, I had a daughter called Melinna Three of her epi-
who, taking advantage of the civil commotions at grams were published for the first time by Bent-
Rome, had formed the design of invading Sicily. I ley; and the whole twelve are given by J. C.
(Diod. Eclog. xxxvii. p. 540, ed. Wesseling. The Wolf, Poetriarum cclo Frugin. &c. , Hamb. 1734,
text of Diodorus has fáïos 'Opbavós, for which we by A. Schneider, l'octriurum Gruec. Fragm.
ought undoubtedly to read with Wesseling, ráños Giessae, 1802, by Brunck, Anal. vet. Poel. Gr.
Nopbavós. ) In the civil wars Norbanus espoused vol. i. , and by Jacobs, Anth. Gruec. vol. i. (Comp.
the Marian party, and was consul in B. C. 83 with Fabric. Bill. Gruec. vol. i. p. 133 ; Bentley, Dis-
Scipio Asiaticus. In this year Sulla crossed over scrtution upon the Epistles of Phuluris, pp. 256,
from Greece to Italy, and marched from Brundisium 257, Lond. 1777. )
into Campania, where Norbanus was waiting for NOTHIPPUS, a tragic poet, with whom we
him, on the Vulturnus at the foot of Mount Tifata, / are only acquainted through a fragment of the
not far from Capua. Sulla at first sent deputies to Morirue of the comic poet Hermippus, who
Norbanus under the pretext of treating respecting a describes Nothippus as an enormous eater. (Athen.
peace, but evidently with the design of tampering viii. p. 344, c, d. )
with his troops ; but they could not effect their pur- NOVATIANUS, according to Philostorgius,
pose, and returned to Sulla after being insulted whose statement, however, has not been generally
and maltreated by the other side. Thereupon a received with confidence, was a native of Phrygia.
general engagement ensued, the issue of which was From the accounts given of his baptism, which his
not long doubtful; the raw levies of Norbanus enemies alleged was irregularly administered in
were unable to resist the first charge of Sulla's consequence of his having been prevented by
veterans, and fed in all directions, and it was not sickness from receiving imposition of hands, it
till they reached the walls of Capua that Norbanus would appear that in early life he was a gentile ;
was able to rally them again. Six or seven thou- but the assertion found in many modern works
sand of his men fell in this battle, while Sulla's that he was devoted to the stoic philosophy is not
loss is said to have been only seventy. Appian, supported by the testimony of any ancient writer.
contrary to all the other authorities, places this. There can be no doubt that he became a presbyter
battle near Canusium in Apulia, but it is not im- of the church at Rome, that he insisted upon the
probable, as Drumann has conjectured (Geschichte rigorous and perpetual exclusion of the Lapsi, the
Röms, vol. ii. p. 459), that he wrote Casilinum, a weak brethren who had fallen away from the faith
town on the Vulturnus. In the following year, under the terrors of persecution, and that upon the
B. C. 82, Norbanus joined the consul Carbo in Cis-election of Cornelius (CORNELIUS], who advocated
alpine Gaul, but their united forces were entirely more charitable opinions, to the Roman see in
defeated by Metellus Pius. (METELLUS, No. 19. ] June, a. D. 251, about sixteen months after the
This may be said to have given the death-blow to the martyrdom of Fabianus, he disowned the authority
Marian party in Italy. Desertion from their ranks of the new pontiff, was himself consecrated bishop
rapidly followed, and Albinovanus, who had been by a rival party, was condemned by the council
entrusted with the command of Ariminum, invited held in the autumn of the same year, and after a
Norbanus and his principal officers to a banquet. vain struggle to maintain his position was obliged
Norbanus suspected treachery, and declined the to give way, and became the founder of a new
invitation ; the rest accepted it and were murdered. sect, who from him derived the name of Noratians.
Norbanus succeeded in making his escape from We are told, moreover, that he was a man of un-
Italy, and fled to Rhodes ; but his person having sociable, treacherous, and wolf-like disposition, that
been demanded by Sulla, he killed himself in the his ordination was performed by three simple
middle of the market-place, while the Rhodians illiterate prelates from an obscure corner of Italy,
were consulting whether they should obey the com- whom he gained to his purpose by a most disrepu-
mands of the dictator. (Appian, B. C. i. 82, 84, table artifice, that these poor men quickly perceived,
86, 91; Liv. Epit. 85 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 25 ; Plut. confessed, and lamented their error, and ibat those
Sull. 27; Oros. v. 20 ; Flor. iii. 21. § 18. ) persons who had at first espoused his cause quickly
2. NORBANUS FLACCUS. (Flaccus. ]
returned to their duty, leaving the schismatic
3. APPIUS NORBANUS, who defeated Antonius almost alone. We must observe that these au-
in the reign of Domitian, is more usually called verse representations proceed from his bitter enemy
Appius Maximus. [MAXIMUS, p. 986, b. ) Cornelius, being contained in a long letter from
4. NORBANUS, praefectus praetorio under Do- that pope to Fabius, of Antioch, preserved in
mitian, was privy to the death of that emperor. Eusebius, that they bear evident marks of personal
(Dion Cass. Ixvii. 15. )
rancour, and that they are contradicted by the
5. NORBANUS LICINIANUS, one of the infamous circumstance that Novatianus was commissioned in
servants of Domitian, was banished (relegatus) in 250 by the Roman clergy to write a letter in their
the reign of Trajan. (Plin. Ep. iii. 9. )
name to Cyprian which is still extant, by the
6. NORBANUS, banished by Commodus. (Lam- respect and popularity which he unquestionably
prid. Commod. 4. )
enjoyed after his assumption of the episcopal dig-
NO'RTIA or NU'RTIA, an Etruscan divinity, nity, even among those who did not recognise his
who was worshipped at Volsinii, where a nail was authority, and by the fact that a numerous and
driven every year into the wall of her temple, for devoted band of followers espousing his cause
the purpose of marking the number of years. (Liv. formed a separate communion, which spread over
vii. 3 ; Juvenal, x. 74. )
[L. S. ] the whole Christian world, and flourished for more
NOSSIS, a Greek poetess, of Locri in Southern than two hundred years. The career of Novatia-
Italy, lived about B. c. 310, and is the author of nus, after the termination of his struggle with
twelve epigrams of considerable beauty, extant in Cornelius, is unknown ; but we are told by So-
the Greek Anthology. From these we learn that crates (H. E. iv. 28) that he suffered death under
her mother's name was Theuphila, and that she Valerian ; and from Pacianus, who flourished in the
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middle of the fourth century, we learn that the persecution (A. D. 249–257), probably towards
Novatians boasted that their founder was a martyr. the close of A. v. 250. If composed under these
The original and distinguishing tenet of these circumstances, as maintained by Jackson, it refutes
heretics was, as we have indicated above, that no in a most satisfactory manner the charges brought
one who after baptism had, through dread of per- by Cornelius in reference to the conduct of Nova-
secution or from any other cause, fallen away from tianus at this epoch. The author denies that the
the faith, could, however sincere his contrition, again | Mosaic ordinances, with regard to meats, are
be received into the bosom of the church, or entertain binding upon Christians, but strongly recommends
sure hope of salvation. It would appear that subse-moderation and strict abstinence from flesh offered
quently this rigorous exclusion was extended to all to idols.
who had been guilty of any of the greater or mortal III. Epistolae. Two letters, of which the first
sina ; and, if we can trust the expression of St. Am is certainly genuine, written a. D. 250, in the
brose (De Poen. iii. 3), Novatianus himself altoge- name of the Roman clergy to Cyprian, when a
ther rejected the efficacy of repentance, and denied vacancy occurred in the p:ipal see in consequence
that forgiveness could be granted to any sin, whether of the martyrdom of Fabianus, on the 13th of
small or great. There can be no doubt that com. February, A. D. 250.
munion was refused to all great offenders, but we The two best editions of the collected works of
feel inclined to believe that Socrates (H. E. iv. 28) Novatianus are those of Welchman (8vo. Oxon.
represents these opinions, as first promulgated, | 172+), and of Jackson ( 8vo. Lond. 1728). The
more fairly when he states, that Novatianus merely latter is in every respect superior, presenting us with
would not admit that the church had power to for- an excellent text, very useful prolegomena, notes
give and grant participation in her mysteries to and indices. The tracts De Trinitate and De Cibis
great offenders, while at the same time he exhorted | Judaicis will be found in almost all editions of Ter-
them to repentance, and referred their case directly tullian from the Parisian impression of 1545 down-
to the decision of God - views which were likely | wards. (Hieronym. de Viris Ill.
