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He adopted as 18, xlv. 44. )
his son and successor, without any regard to his 3. A. LICINIUS Nerva, probably the son of the
own kin, M. Ulpius Trajanus, who was then at praetor of B. c. 166. According to Drumann he
the head of an army in Germany, and probably on was praetor in B. c. 143, and in B. c. 142 governor
the Lower Rhine. It was about this time that of Macedonia, when his quaestor, L. Tremelling,
news arrived of a victory in Pannonia, which is defeated a Pseudoperseus, or a Pseudophilippus,
commemorated by a medal, and it was apparently for there seems some uncertainty about the name,
on this occasion that Nerva assumed the title of and a body of 16,000 men in arms. Nerva re-
Germanicus. He conferred on Trajan the title of ceived on this occasion the title of imperator. (Liv.
Caesar and Germanicus, and the tribunitian power. Epit. 53 ; Eutrop. iv. 15. )
Trajan was thus associated with Nerva in the 4. C. LICINIUS Nerva. His precise relation-
government, and tranquillity was restored at Rome. ship to the preceding is unknown. He is men-
in the year a. D. 98, Nerva and Trajan were con- tioned by Cicero (Brut. 34), and contrasted with
suls. The emperor died suddenly on the 27th of L. Bestia, whence Meyer concludes that he may
January, in the sixty-third year of his age, ac- have been Bestia's colleague in the tribuneship.
cording to Victor ; but according to Dion, at the Cicero calls him a bad man, but not without some
age of sixty-five years, ten months and ten days. eloquence.
Eutropius incorrectly states that he was seventy- 5. LICINIUS NERVA, is known only from the
one. Victor records an eclipse of the sun on the day coins as a quaestor of Decimus Brutus, in the war
of Nerva's death, but the eclipse happened on the before Mutina. (Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol
21st of March, A. D. 98.
iv. p. 19, No. 85. )
The body of Nerva was carried to the pile on 6. P. LiciniUS NERVA, in B. c. 103, was pro
the shoulders of the senators, as that of Augustus praetor in Sicily at the time when the second Ser-
had been, and his remains were placed in the vile War broke out. The senate had made a de-
sepulchre of Augustus. Nerva received the honour cree that no free person of those nations which had
of deification. (The authorities for the reign of alliance and friendship with Rome should be en-
Nerva are contained in Tillemont, Histoire des Em- slaved, and it was alleged that the Publicani had
pereurs, vol. ii. , who has made some use of the seized and sold many as slaves, probably because
doubtful authority of the Life of Apollonius by Phi- they did not pay the taxes. Nerva published an
lostratus ; Dion Cass. lib. Ixviii, with the notes of edict that all persons in Sicily who were entitled
Reimarus ; Aurelius Victor. ed. Arntzenius ; and to the benefit of the decree should come to Syracuse
C. Plinius, Panegyricus, ed. Schaefer. ) [G. L. ] to make out their case. Abore eight hundred
persons thus recovered their freedom, but those
who held persons in slavery, fearing that the mat-
ter would go further, prerailed on Nerva not to
allow any further claims of freedom to be made, to
which he assented, and a rising of the slaves was
the consequence. This war lasted four years, and
was ended by the proconsul Aquillius. The his-
tory of this rising is told circumstantially by Dio.
dorus (xxxvi. ; Excerpts by Photius, Cod. 244).
The praetor by treachery gained some advantage
over the slaves, and the Roman troops after this
NERVA, LICI'NIUS. 1. C. LICINIUS Nerra, success retired to their quarters. But the disturb-
a son of C. Licinius Nerva, of whom nothing is ance soon broke out, and it assumed the form of a
known. Nerva the son was one of the legati regular war under Athenion. L. Licinins Lucullus,
who, in B. c. 168, bronght the news to Rome of the father of Lucullus, the vanquisher of Mithri.
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daten, was sent in B. c. 102 to succeed Nerra in invaded the country of Neleus, and slew his song,
the government of Sicily.
Nestor alone was spared, because at the time he
7. A. LICINIUS NERVA SILIANUS, was adopted was not at Pylos, but among the Gerenians, where
by some Licinius Nerva, as the name Silianus he had taken reſuge. (Hom. Il xi. 692; Apollod.
shows, out of the Silia gens. He was the son of i. 7. $ 3; Paus. jii. 26. & 6. ) This story is con-
P. Silius (Vell. Pat. ii. 116), a distinguished com- nected with another about the friendship between
mander under Augustus, and consul, B. C. 20, with Heracles and Nestor, for the latter is said to have
M. Appuleius. Silianus was consul, A. D. 7, but he i taken no part in the carrying off from Heracles tho
is called Licinius Silanus in the text of Dion Cas oxen of Geryones ; and Heracles rewarded Nestor
sius (ly. 30). P. Silius, the consul of B. c. 20, ap by giving to him Messene, and became more at-
pears in the Fasti Consulares as P. Silius Nerva, tached to him even than to Hylas and Abderus.
whence it appears that the cognoinen Nerva be Nestor, on the other hand, is said to have intro-
longed to the Silii. (SILIUs. )
duced the custom of swearing by Heracles.
The authorities for the Licinii Nervae are col (Philostr. Her. 2 ; comp. Ov. Met xii. 540, &c. ;
lected by Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. iv. p. Paus. iv. 3. § 1, who states that Nestor inhabited
196, &c.
(G. L. Messenia after the death of the sons of Aphareus. )
NERVA, SI’LIUS. [NERVA, LICINIUS, No. When a young man, Nestor was distinguished as
7, and Silius)
& warrior, and, in a war with the Arcadians, he
NERVA TRAJA'NUS. (TRAJANUS. ] slew Ereuthalion. (Hom. Il. iv. 319, vii. 133, &c. ,
NERULI'NUS, the son of P. Suillius, one of xxiii. 630, &c. ) In the war with the Eleians, he
the chief instruments of the tyranny of Claudius, killed Ityinoneus, and took from them large flocks
escaped accusation when his father was tried and of cattle. (xi. 670. ) When, after this, the Eleians
condemned at the beginning of Nero's reign, A. D. laid siege to Thryoëssa, Nestor, without the war-
59, because the emperor thought that sufficient steeds of his father, went out on foon, and gained a
punishment had been inflicted on the family (Tac. glorious victory. (xi. 706, &c. ) He also took
Ann. xiii. 43). On the coins of Smyrna, struck part in the fight of the Lapithae against the
in the time of Vespasian, we find the name of M. Centaurs (i. 260, &c. ), and is mentioned among the
Suillins Nerulinus, proconsul (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. Calydonian hunters and the Argonauts (Ov. Met.
556), and it is not improbable that this is the same viii. 313 ; Val. Flacc. i. 380); but he owes his
person as the Nerulinus mentioned above. He fanie chiefly to the Homeric poems, in which his
may also be the same as the M. Suillius who was share in the Trojan war is immortalized. After
consul with L. Antistius, in the reign of Claudius, having, in conjunction with Odysseus, prevailed
A. D. 50. (Tac. Ann. xii. 50. )
upon Achilles and Patroclus to join the Greeks
NESAIA (Nnoala), a daughter of Nerus and against Troy, he sailed with his Pylians in sixty
Doris, and one of the Nereides. (Hom. Il. xviii. ships to Asia. (Il. ii. 591, &c. , xi. 767. ) At
40 ; Hes. Theog. 249. )
(L S.
] Troy he took part in all the most important events
NESEAS, painter. [Zeuxis)
that occurred, both in the council and in the field
NESIO'TËS, a sculptor, appears to have been an of battle. Agamemnon through Nestor became
assistant of the celebrated Athenian artist Critias, reconciled with Achilles, and therefore honoured
and not a surname of the latter, as some modern him highly; and whenever he was in any diffi-
writers have conjectured. (Critias, VOL. I. p. 893. ] culty, he applied for advice to Nestor. (ii. 21, x.
NESO (Nnou), one of the Nereides (Hes. 18. ) In the picture which Homer draws of him,
Theog. 261); but Lycophron (1468) mentions one the most striking features are his wisdom, justice,
Neso as the mother of the Cumaean sibyl. (L. S. ] bravery, knowledge of war, his eloquence, and his
NESSUS (Néoros). 1. The god of the river old age. (Od. iii. 126, &c. , 244, xxiv. 52, ll. i.
Nestus (also called Nessus or Nesus) in Thrace, is 273, ii. 336, 361, 370, &c. , vii. 325, ix. 104, X.
described as a son of Oceanus and Thetys. (Hes. 18, xi. 627. ) He is said to have ruled over three
Theog. 341. )
generations of men, so that his advice and autho-
2. A centaur, who carried Deianeira across the rity were deemed equal to that of the immortal
river Evenus, but, wishing to run away with her, gods. (Ou. jii. 245, 1l. i. 250 ; comp. Hygin. Fab.
he was shot by Heracles with a poisoned arrow, 10. ) In this sense we have also to understand the
which afterwards became the cause of Heracles' tria saecula, which he is said by Latin writers
own death. (Soph. Trach. 558; Apollod. ii. 7. to have ruled. (Gellius, xix. 7; Cic. De Senect.
§ 4; comp. HERACLES. )
(L. S. ] 10; Horat. Carm. ii. 9. 13; Ov. Met. xii. 158. )
NESSUS, a painter, was the son of Habron, But, notwithstanding his advanced age, he was
who was also a painter. [HABRON. ]
brave and bold in battle, and distinguished above
NESTOR (Néotwp), a son of Neleus and all others for drawing up horses and men in battle
Chloris of Pylos in Triphylia, and husband of array. After the fall of Troy he, together with
Eurydice (or, according to others, of Anaxibia, the Menelaus and Diomedes, returned home, and
daughter of Cratieus), by whom he became the safely arrived in Pylos (Od. ii. 165, &c. ), where
father of Peisidice, Polycaste, Perseus, Stratius, Zeus granted to him the full enjoyment of old age,
Aretus, Echephron, Peisistratus, Antilochus, and surrounded by intelligent and brave sons (Od.
Thrasymedes. (Hom. Od. ii. 413, &c. , 452, iv. 209, &c. ) In this condition he was found by
464, xi. 285, &c. ; Apollod. i. 9. § 9. ) With Telemachus, who visited him to inquire after his
regard to Anaxibia having been his wife, we are father, and was hospitably received by him. The
informed by Eustathius (ad Hom. p. 296), that town of Pylos in Messenia claimed to be the city
after the death of Eurydice, Nestor married An- of Nestor; and, when Pausanias visited it, the
axibia, the daughter of Atreus, and sister of people showed to him the house in which Nestor
Agamemnon ; but this Anaxibia is elsewhere de- was believed to have lived. (Paus. iv. 3. & 4, 36.
scribed as the wife of Strophius, and the mother of 2. ) In the temple of Messene at Messene he
P'ylades (Paus. ii. 29. $ 4. ) When Heracles I was represented in a painting with two of his song
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p. 674. )
and he was also seen in the painting of Polygt. otus set himself to gain popularity, and succeeded : his
in the Lesche at Delphi (Paus. iv. 31. § 9, x. fluency as a preacher attracted admiration ; and his
25, in fin. ; Philostr. Her, 2. )
(L. S. ] staid deportment, sober garb, and studious habits
NESTOR (Néotwp). 1. of Laranda in Lycia excited reverence. So great and general was the
according to Suidas, in Lycaonia according to respect entertained for him, that when he was
Strabo and Stephanus Byzantinus. He lived in the appointed patriarch of Constantinople, the appoint-
reign of the emperor Severus, between A. D. 194 ment was hailed with general approval. He was
and 211. He is mentioned by Suidas (s. v. ) as an consecrated 10th April 428, according to the au-
epic poet. We infer from Stephanus Byzantinus thority of Socrates. Liberatus places his conse
(s. v. Tototal) that he wrote a poem called cration on the 1st of April (Breviar. cap. 4) which
Anegavopelas, “ On the deeds of Alexander," to Le Quien (Oriens Christian. , vol. i. col. 215)
which Suidas probably reſers. Suidas also men- observes to be more consistent with the usage of
tions that he was the father of the poet Peisander. the Constantinopolitan Church, as it coincided that
Tryphiodorus, as we learn from Eustathius in the year with Sunday, on which day the patriarchs
prooemium to the Odyssey, wrote an Odyssey were usually consecrated. Theophanes places the
heittoypáupatov, wanting the letter o throughout. appointment of Nestorius in A. m. 5923, Alex. era,
Similarly, Nestor, we learn from Suidas, wrote the which corresponds with A. D. 430 or 431 ; but his
Iliad, omitting in each book the letter indicating chronology is by no means accurate in this part of
its number, as in the first book, the letter a, in the his work. Nestorius was consecrated rather more
second, the letter B, and so on with the rest. He than three months after the death of his predecessor
wrote also a poem entitled MetamoPPusers. Four Sisinnius.
fragments of his writings are inserted in the Antho- He gave immediately on his appointment an
logia Graeca (vol. iii. p. 54, ed. Jacobs). The fourth indication of the violent and intolerant course
of these epigrams has point, and rebukes men for at- which he afterwards pursued. He thus publicly
tempting poetry who are unskilled in the art. The addressed the emperor Theodosius the Younger
last line has passed into the proverb of Erasmus (Socrat. H. E. vii. 29): “ Purge the earth, sire, of
Equitandi peritus ne canas. (Fabric, Bibl. Graec. heretics for me, and I will in return bestow heaven
vol. pp. 134, 517, iï. p. 46, iv. p. 483; Jacobs, on you. Join me in putting away the heretics,
Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 54, vol. xiii. p. 921 ; Sạid. and I will join you in putting away the Persians. ”
Steph. ll. cc. )
The bigotry of some was pleased with the declara-
2. A stoical philosopher of Tarsus. (Strab. xiv. tion, but wiser auditors listened with sorrow to the
proof which it gave of his violent and boastful
3. An academic philosopher, preceptor of Mar- temper. His deeds were answerable to his words
cellus, son of Octavia. Marcellus died B. C. 23. The Arians had a house of prayer, in which they
(Strab. lib. xiv. p. 675; Clinton, F. H. vol.