)
nendis, that is, covering marble statues with a sort
5.
nendis, that is, covering marble statues with a sort
5.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
(Polyb.
v.
71.
)
the event as an injunction from the gods that they 8. Praetor of the Achaean league in B. C. 207.
should not retreat before the next full moon, and (Liv. xxviii. 8. )
Nicias resoluteiy determined to abide by their de- 9. An officer in the service of Perseus, king of
4 6 2
»
pans From Cazane na
pre Atbetans and best made
cias and Larachas precedent
towards Santa Uste
recan Sias rect
only ehan thir
seem to bare
med LEDEN
, but in the artesan
ase. Bra stunda
i rclestaron took permis
Ormprum, br the benches
e took place the dert dor, i
were defeated. But very
and mones, the thermos
the first part of the city
at Vara The vote
Searcurs to inde lieu
red the assistance to pred
Ered some Etrusas de
arors were sent to take
remered to Catania
sent from Athens, and aniel
(BC. 414. JEST
seisung Epple
, I TECH
le crumralno
Senced. The sus prezentat
pts of the SITKILLES DE SANT
## p. 1188 (#1204) ##########################################
1188
NICIAS.
NICIAS.
names.
Macedonia. He seems to have been in command | 1. Against the dialtnt's of Philoponus. 2. Against
at Pella. When the fortunes of Perseus appeared Severus, the Eutychian. 3. Against the Pagans.
desperate, in a moment of bewilderment he gave He is not to be confounded with NicakAS.
directions to Nicias to throw his treasures into the (Cave, Hist. Lit. Sc. Ec. vol. i. p. 695; Fabric. Bibl.
sea, and to Andronicus to burn his fleet. The Graec. vol. X. p. 494. ) His writings are not
former executed the commands of the king, though extant.
(W. M. G. ]
a large part of the treasure was afterwards recovered. NI'CIAS (Nelas), the name of at least two
But Perseus, to get rid of the witnesses of such an physicians.
act of folly, had both Nicias and Andronicus put 1. The physician of Pyrrhus, king of Epeirus,
to death, B. C. 169. (Liv. xliv. 10. )
who, during his master's war with the Romans,
10. A native of Cos, who made himself tyrant went to C. Fabricius Luscinus, the consul, B. C.
for a short time. He was a contemporary of Strabo. 278, and offered for a certain reward to take off
(Strab. xiv. p. 658. )
(C. P. M. ] the king by poison. (Claud. Quadrigar, ap. Aul.
NI'CIAS (Nokias), literary. 1. Of Elein. To Gell. Nocl. Ait. iii. 8 ; Zonaras, Annul. vol. ii. p.
him some attributed the Bakxiká, a poem generally 48, cd Basel, 1557. ) Fabricius not only rejected
ascribed to Orpheus. (Fabric. Bibl. Gracc. vol. i. his base offer with indignation, but immediately
pp. 164, 172. )
sent him back to Pyrrhus with notice of his
2. A rhetorician of Syracuse, who, with Tisias, treachery, who, upon receiving the information, is
instructed Lycias, B. c. 443. (Suid. S. v. Avoias. ) said to have cried out, “ This is that Fabricius
Westermann (Gesch. der Griech. Bered. p. 38) whom it is harder to turn aside from justice and
suggests that the separate mention of a Syracusan honour than to divert the sun from its course. "
Nicias may have arisen from the confusion of (Eutrop. ii. 14. ) Zonaras adds (l. c. p. 50), that
For though many writers mention him the traitor was put to death, and his skin used to
along with Tisias, they seem to have all drawn cover the seat of a chair.
from one common source.
2. A native of Nicopolis, in the second century
3. A slave of Epicurus, manumitted along with after Christ, introduced by Plutarch in his Sym.
Mys and Lycon, B. c. 278. (Diog. Laërt. p. 272, posiuca (vii. 1. $ 1), as one of the speakers in the
ed. Lond. 1664. )
discussion, whether what is drunk enters the
4. Of Nicaea, repeatedly referred to by Athe- lungs. Nicias rightly maintained that it did not
naeus, who names three works of his. These are, The writer on stones, Nepl ailwv, quoted by
1. Aladoxal, which seem to have been memoirs of Plutarch (Parall. § 13, De Fluv. c. 20. § 4)
the various schools of philosophy (vi. p. 273, d. , and Stobaeus (Floril. tit. 100. $ 12. p. 541), is
xiii. p. 592, a. ). 2. 'Apradikó, which may have a different person, and does not appear to have
been an account of Arcadian usages, perhaps a por- been a physician, though so classed by Fabricius
tion of a larger work on Greek local usages (xiii. (Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 316, ed. vet. ) [W. A. G. )
p. 609, e. , where Athenaeus simply speaks of him NI'CIAS, a celebrated Athenian painter, was the
as Niklas). 3. A history Tepl TW pilooooww son of Nicomedes, and the disciple of Antidotus (Plin.
(iv. p. 162, e. ). But by comparing this passage, xxxv. 11. s. 40. & 28). On this ground Sillig argues
wherein he quotes Sotion, as the writer of the that since Antidotus was the pupil of Euphranor,
Aladoxal, with another (xi. p. 505, b. c. ), where he who flourished about the 104th Olympiad, Nicias
mentions their names together, we think that we must have flourished about Ol. 117 or about & C.
may justly conclude, that, through inadvertence, or 310. And this agrees with the story of Plutarch
an error in the text, the names of Nicias and about the unwillingness of Nicias to sell one of his
Sotion have become interchanged, and that the pictures to Ptolemy, king of Egypt, if we suppose
history is to be transferred to Sotion. We have Ptolemy I. to be meant (Non poss. suar. viv. sec.
no means of ascertaining his age, except that he Epicureos, 11). On the other hand, Pliny tells us
must have lived after Plato. (Athen. ll. cc. ; that Nicias assisted Praxiteles in statuis circumli-
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 770.
)
nendis, that is, covering marble statues with a sort
5. A Coan grammarian, who lived at Rome in of encaustic varnish, by which a beautifully smooth
the time of Cicero, with whom he was intimate and tinted surface was given to them (see Dict. of
Suetonius (de Illustr. Gramm. 14) calls him, if the Antiq. PAINTING, $ viii. ). Now Praxiteles flou-
ordinary reading be correct, Curtius Nicia. He rished in the 104th Olympiad, B. C. 364—360.
also mentions (l. c. ) that he originally belonged to We must therefore either suppose that Nicias thus
the party of Pompey, but that, having endeavoured painted the statues of Praxiteles a considerable
to involve Pompey's wife in an intrigue with time after they were made, which is not very pro-
Memmius, he was betrayed by her, and disgraced bable in itself, and is opposed to Pliny's statement ;
by his former patron. From the scattered notices or else that Pliny has confounded two different
of him found in Cicero, we may conclude that he artists, indeed he himself suggests that there
was of an amiable disposition, but soft and effemi- may have been two artists of the name. (See
We nowhere read of his having any great | Sillig, Catal. Artif. s. v. ) But, plausible as this
reputation. In one passage (ad Attic. vii. 3) argument is, it is not conclusive, for the division
Cicero does not seem to trust much to his authority of a master and pupil by seven or eight Olympiads
as to the question, whether Piracea was the name is an arbitrary assumption. A pupil may be, and
of a locus or of an oppidum. If we may trust a
corrupt passage in Suetonius (l. c. ), he wrote a * Aelian calls the physician by the name of
treatise on the writings of Lucilius. (Sueton. l. c. ; Cineas (Var. Hist. xii. 33); and Ammianus Mar-
Cic. ad Fam. ix. 10, ad Att. l. c. xii. 26, 53, xii. cellinus (xxx. 1), Valerius Antias (ap. Aul. Gell
28 ; Clinton, F. H. vol. üi. p. 207. ) Cicero's | 1. c. ), and Valerius Maximus (vi. 5. § 1), tell the
letters that mention him extend from B. C. 50 story of one of the friends of Pyrrhus, whom the
to 45.
first-named author calls Demochares, and the two
6. A monk, who lived A. D. 60). He wrote: others Timochares.
nate.
## p. 1189 (#1205) ##########################################
CIAS.
1189
NICIAS,
NICOCHARES.
POP! ? ons 21
21. & Apans the per
cott rith Sails
EC. TOU. p. 695; Faroe
4) His young 2*
(W. X)
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ter's war wish the Rank
Luscires, the mos1
I certain resurd to take
Card Qara 4
; Lenaras, de
Faincus net echte
dator, but I
yer with notice of B3
receiving the DES
rate - This is a fizes
. . . aside from justice and
7 ibe su iran 3
mars acis 16 p. 36,
a:2, and his sals skin
name.
opties in the second say
ed by Pistarca in base
as coe of the pealers
wat is druri este a
Laibanned tha: 1 462
Is Iler hitor, pure -
i Farch
be 100. § 1 pins
cd coes not as9e1r a un
- so ciassed beho
Hs, ed. rel) (WA6,
tec Asbeian painter, ra
be disciple at Anda pa
On is gerad: 20
*as the pepi af Danmar
1e 114h (red.
about (111; GLXT: 1:
$ with the start of Prze:
us of cras te selonin
kurs of Egyp inox
often is, nearly the same age as his teacher, and attitudes and expressions of horses and of men
sometimes even older. Again, Pliny's dates are afford rich materials for the painter : the subject of
very loosely given; we can never tell with cer- the action was, he thought, as important a part of
tainty whether they are meant to mark the early or painting as the story or plot was of poetry.
the middle or the latter part of an artist's career. Nicias was the first painter who used burnt
In the case of Praxiteles, we know that he ochre, the discovery of which was owing to an
executed great works considerably later than the accident (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 6. § 20). He had a
date assigned by Pliny. Supposing then that disciple, Omphalion, who was formerly his slave
Nicias, as a young man, assisted Praxiteles when and favourite (Paus. iv. 31. § 9). He himself was
in the height of his fame (and it is not likely that buried at Athens, by the road ading to the
Nicias would have been so employed after he had academy (Paus. i. 29. § 15).
(P. S. ]
obtained an independent reputation), and that his NICIPPE (Niklaan). 1. A daughter of Pelops,
refusal to sell his picture to Ptolemy occurred and the wife of Sthenelus, by whom she becanie
when he was old, and had gained both reputation the mother of Alcinoë, Medusa, and Eurystheus.
and wealth enough, there remains no positive (Apollod. ii. 4. § 5. ) It should be remarked that
anachronism in supposing only one artist of this some call her Leucippe, Archippe, or Astydameia
(Heyne, ad Apollod. l. C. ; Schol. ad Thucyd.
Nicias was the most celebrated disciple of i. 9. )
Euphranor. He was extremely skilful in painting 2. A daughter of Thespius, the mother of Anti-
female figures, careful in his management of light machus, by Heracles. (Apollod. ii. 7. $ 8. ) [L. S. ]
and shade, and in making his figures stand out of NICIPPUS (NIKITTOS). 1. A Conn mentioned
the picture (Plin. l. c. ). The following works of by Aelian (V. H. i. 29), who succeeded in making
his are enumerated by Pliny (l. c. ): they seem to himself tyrant.
have been all painted in encaustic. A painting of 2. A friend and disciple of Theophrastus. (Diog.
Nemea, sitting on a lion, holding a palm in her Laërt. v. 53. )
hand, with an old man standing by with a staff, 3. One of the ephors of the Messenians in B. C.
over whose head was a picture of a biga. This 220. With some other leading men amongst
last point is not very intelligible ; Lessing has en- | them, who held oligarchical views, he was a stre-
deavoured to clear it up (Laocoon, p. 280, note): nuous supporter of peace, even to the detriment of
Nicias placed on this picture the inscription, Nikias the public interests. When the envoys from the
evékavoev : the picture was carried from Asia to congress held at Corinth, at which war had been
Rome by Silanus, and Augustns had it fastened resolved on against the Aetolians, came to Messenia,
into the wall of the curia which he dedicated in Nicippus and his party, contrary to the feelings and
the comitium (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 4. s. 10). Father wishes of the people generally, by means of some
Liber in the temple of Concord. A Hyacinthus, degree of compulsion got the reply returned to the
painted as a beautiful youth, to signify the love of envoys, that the Messenians would not enter into
Apollo for him (comp. Paus. iii. 19. § 4); Augustus the war until Phigalea, a town on their borders,
was so delighted with the picture that he carried it to had been wrested from the Aetolians. Polybius,
Rome after the taking of Alexandria, and Tiberius in a digression, finds great fault with the policy of
dedicated it in the temple of Augustus. A Diana, this faction among the Messenians. (Polyb. iv.
probably at Ephesus, as Pliny mentions in imme- 31 ; Thirlwall, Hist. of Greece, vol. viii. p. 233,
diate connection with it the sepulchre of Megabyzus, &c. )
[C. P. M. ]
the priest of Diana, at Ephesus, as painted by NI'CO. [Nicon. ]
Nicias. Lastly, what appears to bave been his NICOBU'LA (N. Kobotan), a Greek lady, quoted
master-piece, a representation of the infernal regions by Athenaeus (x. p. 434, c. xii. p. 537, d. ),
as described by Homer (Nervia, Necromantia Ho though with some doubt (Nik. T ó dvadels taúrp
meri); this was the picture which Nicias refused tà ourypáupata), as the author of a work about
to sell to Ptoleniy, although the price offered for it Alexander the Great. In the MSS. of Pliny the
was sixty talents (Plutarch, loc. sup. cit. ): Pliny name Nicobulus is found, and Harduin (Index A uo-
tells the same story of Attalus, which is a manifest torum, vol. i. p. 63) supposes that he accompanied
anachronism. Plutarch also tells that Nicias was Alexander in his expeditions. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
80 absorbed in the work during its progress, that vol. iii.
the event as an injunction from the gods that they 8. Praetor of the Achaean league in B. C. 207.
should not retreat before the next full moon, and (Liv. xxviii. 8. )
Nicias resoluteiy determined to abide by their de- 9. An officer in the service of Perseus, king of
4 6 2
»
pans From Cazane na
pre Atbetans and best made
cias and Larachas precedent
towards Santa Uste
recan Sias rect
only ehan thir
seem to bare
med LEDEN
, but in the artesan
ase. Bra stunda
i rclestaron took permis
Ormprum, br the benches
e took place the dert dor, i
were defeated. But very
and mones, the thermos
the first part of the city
at Vara The vote
Searcurs to inde lieu
red the assistance to pred
Ered some Etrusas de
arors were sent to take
remered to Catania
sent from Athens, and aniel
(BC. 414. JEST
seisung Epple
, I TECH
le crumralno
Senced. The sus prezentat
pts of the SITKILLES DE SANT
## p. 1188 (#1204) ##########################################
1188
NICIAS.
NICIAS.
names.
Macedonia. He seems to have been in command | 1. Against the dialtnt's of Philoponus. 2. Against
at Pella. When the fortunes of Perseus appeared Severus, the Eutychian. 3. Against the Pagans.
desperate, in a moment of bewilderment he gave He is not to be confounded with NicakAS.
directions to Nicias to throw his treasures into the (Cave, Hist. Lit. Sc. Ec. vol. i. p. 695; Fabric. Bibl.
sea, and to Andronicus to burn his fleet. The Graec. vol. X. p. 494. ) His writings are not
former executed the commands of the king, though extant.
(W. M. G. ]
a large part of the treasure was afterwards recovered. NI'CIAS (Nelas), the name of at least two
But Perseus, to get rid of the witnesses of such an physicians.
act of folly, had both Nicias and Andronicus put 1. The physician of Pyrrhus, king of Epeirus,
to death, B. C. 169. (Liv. xliv. 10. )
who, during his master's war with the Romans,
10. A native of Cos, who made himself tyrant went to C. Fabricius Luscinus, the consul, B. C.
for a short time. He was a contemporary of Strabo. 278, and offered for a certain reward to take off
(Strab. xiv. p. 658. )
(C. P. M. ] the king by poison. (Claud. Quadrigar, ap. Aul.
NI'CIAS (Nokias), literary. 1. Of Elein. To Gell. Nocl. Ait. iii. 8 ; Zonaras, Annul. vol. ii. p.
him some attributed the Bakxiká, a poem generally 48, cd Basel, 1557. ) Fabricius not only rejected
ascribed to Orpheus. (Fabric. Bibl. Gracc. vol. i. his base offer with indignation, but immediately
pp. 164, 172. )
sent him back to Pyrrhus with notice of his
2. A rhetorician of Syracuse, who, with Tisias, treachery, who, upon receiving the information, is
instructed Lycias, B. c. 443. (Suid. S. v. Avoias. ) said to have cried out, “ This is that Fabricius
Westermann (Gesch. der Griech. Bered. p. 38) whom it is harder to turn aside from justice and
suggests that the separate mention of a Syracusan honour than to divert the sun from its course. "
Nicias may have arisen from the confusion of (Eutrop. ii. 14. ) Zonaras adds (l. c. p. 50), that
For though many writers mention him the traitor was put to death, and his skin used to
along with Tisias, they seem to have all drawn cover the seat of a chair.
from one common source.
2. A native of Nicopolis, in the second century
3. A slave of Epicurus, manumitted along with after Christ, introduced by Plutarch in his Sym.
Mys and Lycon, B. c. 278. (Diog. Laërt. p. 272, posiuca (vii. 1. $ 1), as one of the speakers in the
ed. Lond. 1664. )
discussion, whether what is drunk enters the
4. Of Nicaea, repeatedly referred to by Athe- lungs. Nicias rightly maintained that it did not
naeus, who names three works of his. These are, The writer on stones, Nepl ailwv, quoted by
1. Aladoxal, which seem to have been memoirs of Plutarch (Parall. § 13, De Fluv. c. 20. § 4)
the various schools of philosophy (vi. p. 273, d. , and Stobaeus (Floril. tit. 100. $ 12. p. 541), is
xiii. p. 592, a. ). 2. 'Apradikó, which may have a different person, and does not appear to have
been an account of Arcadian usages, perhaps a por- been a physician, though so classed by Fabricius
tion of a larger work on Greek local usages (xiii. (Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 316, ed. vet. ) [W. A. G. )
p. 609, e. , where Athenaeus simply speaks of him NI'CIAS, a celebrated Athenian painter, was the
as Niklas). 3. A history Tepl TW pilooooww son of Nicomedes, and the disciple of Antidotus (Plin.
(iv. p. 162, e. ). But by comparing this passage, xxxv. 11. s. 40. & 28). On this ground Sillig argues
wherein he quotes Sotion, as the writer of the that since Antidotus was the pupil of Euphranor,
Aladoxal, with another (xi. p. 505, b. c. ), where he who flourished about the 104th Olympiad, Nicias
mentions their names together, we think that we must have flourished about Ol. 117 or about & C.
may justly conclude, that, through inadvertence, or 310. And this agrees with the story of Plutarch
an error in the text, the names of Nicias and about the unwillingness of Nicias to sell one of his
Sotion have become interchanged, and that the pictures to Ptolemy, king of Egypt, if we suppose
history is to be transferred to Sotion. We have Ptolemy I. to be meant (Non poss. suar. viv. sec.
no means of ascertaining his age, except that he Epicureos, 11). On the other hand, Pliny tells us
must have lived after Plato. (Athen. ll. cc. ; that Nicias assisted Praxiteles in statuis circumli-
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 770.
)
nendis, that is, covering marble statues with a sort
5. A Coan grammarian, who lived at Rome in of encaustic varnish, by which a beautifully smooth
the time of Cicero, with whom he was intimate and tinted surface was given to them (see Dict. of
Suetonius (de Illustr. Gramm. 14) calls him, if the Antiq. PAINTING, $ viii. ). Now Praxiteles flou-
ordinary reading be correct, Curtius Nicia. He rished in the 104th Olympiad, B. C. 364—360.
also mentions (l. c. ) that he originally belonged to We must therefore either suppose that Nicias thus
the party of Pompey, but that, having endeavoured painted the statues of Praxiteles a considerable
to involve Pompey's wife in an intrigue with time after they were made, which is not very pro-
Memmius, he was betrayed by her, and disgraced bable in itself, and is opposed to Pliny's statement ;
by his former patron. From the scattered notices or else that Pliny has confounded two different
of him found in Cicero, we may conclude that he artists, indeed he himself suggests that there
was of an amiable disposition, but soft and effemi- may have been two artists of the name. (See
We nowhere read of his having any great | Sillig, Catal. Artif. s. v. ) But, plausible as this
reputation. In one passage (ad Attic. vii. 3) argument is, it is not conclusive, for the division
Cicero does not seem to trust much to his authority of a master and pupil by seven or eight Olympiads
as to the question, whether Piracea was the name is an arbitrary assumption. A pupil may be, and
of a locus or of an oppidum. If we may trust a
corrupt passage in Suetonius (l. c. ), he wrote a * Aelian calls the physician by the name of
treatise on the writings of Lucilius. (Sueton. l. c. ; Cineas (Var. Hist. xii. 33); and Ammianus Mar-
Cic. ad Fam. ix. 10, ad Att. l. c. xii. 26, 53, xii. cellinus (xxx. 1), Valerius Antias (ap. Aul. Gell
28 ; Clinton, F. H. vol. üi. p. 207. ) Cicero's | 1. c. ), and Valerius Maximus (vi. 5. § 1), tell the
letters that mention him extend from B. C. 50 story of one of the friends of Pyrrhus, whom the
to 45.
first-named author calls Demochares, and the two
6. A monk, who lived A. D. 60). He wrote: others Timochares.
nate.
## p. 1189 (#1205) ##########################################
CIAS.
1189
NICIAS,
NICOCHARES.
POP! ? ons 21
21. & Apans the per
cott rith Sails
EC. TOU. p. 695; Faroe
4) His young 2*
(W. X)
- tbe name of at least
of Pyrrtus, king of Evers
ter's war wish the Rank
Luscires, the mos1
I certain resurd to take
Card Qara 4
; Lenaras, de
Faincus net echte
dator, but I
yer with notice of B3
receiving the DES
rate - This is a fizes
. . . aside from justice and
7 ibe su iran 3
mars acis 16 p. 36,
a:2, and his sals skin
name.
opties in the second say
ed by Pistarca in base
as coe of the pealers
wat is druri este a
Laibanned tha: 1 462
Is Iler hitor, pure -
i Farch
be 100. § 1 pins
cd coes not as9e1r a un
- so ciassed beho
Hs, ed. rel) (WA6,
tec Asbeian painter, ra
be disciple at Anda pa
On is gerad: 20
*as the pepi af Danmar
1e 114h (red.
about (111; GLXT: 1:
$ with the start of Prze:
us of cras te selonin
kurs of Egyp inox
often is, nearly the same age as his teacher, and attitudes and expressions of horses and of men
sometimes even older. Again, Pliny's dates are afford rich materials for the painter : the subject of
very loosely given; we can never tell with cer- the action was, he thought, as important a part of
tainty whether they are meant to mark the early or painting as the story or plot was of poetry.
the middle or the latter part of an artist's career. Nicias was the first painter who used burnt
In the case of Praxiteles, we know that he ochre, the discovery of which was owing to an
executed great works considerably later than the accident (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 6. § 20). He had a
date assigned by Pliny. Supposing then that disciple, Omphalion, who was formerly his slave
Nicias, as a young man, assisted Praxiteles when and favourite (Paus. iv. 31. § 9). He himself was
in the height of his fame (and it is not likely that buried at Athens, by the road ading to the
Nicias would have been so employed after he had academy (Paus. i. 29. § 15).
(P. S. ]
obtained an independent reputation), and that his NICIPPE (Niklaan). 1. A daughter of Pelops,
refusal to sell his picture to Ptolemy occurred and the wife of Sthenelus, by whom she becanie
when he was old, and had gained both reputation the mother of Alcinoë, Medusa, and Eurystheus.
and wealth enough, there remains no positive (Apollod. ii. 4. § 5. ) It should be remarked that
anachronism in supposing only one artist of this some call her Leucippe, Archippe, or Astydameia
(Heyne, ad Apollod. l. C. ; Schol. ad Thucyd.
Nicias was the most celebrated disciple of i. 9. )
Euphranor. He was extremely skilful in painting 2. A daughter of Thespius, the mother of Anti-
female figures, careful in his management of light machus, by Heracles. (Apollod. ii. 7. $ 8. ) [L. S. ]
and shade, and in making his figures stand out of NICIPPUS (NIKITTOS). 1. A Conn mentioned
the picture (Plin. l. c. ). The following works of by Aelian (V. H. i. 29), who succeeded in making
his are enumerated by Pliny (l. c. ): they seem to himself tyrant.
have been all painted in encaustic. A painting of 2. A friend and disciple of Theophrastus. (Diog.
Nemea, sitting on a lion, holding a palm in her Laërt. v. 53. )
hand, with an old man standing by with a staff, 3. One of the ephors of the Messenians in B. C.
over whose head was a picture of a biga. This 220. With some other leading men amongst
last point is not very intelligible ; Lessing has en- | them, who held oligarchical views, he was a stre-
deavoured to clear it up (Laocoon, p. 280, note): nuous supporter of peace, even to the detriment of
Nicias placed on this picture the inscription, Nikias the public interests. When the envoys from the
evékavoev : the picture was carried from Asia to congress held at Corinth, at which war had been
Rome by Silanus, and Augustns had it fastened resolved on against the Aetolians, came to Messenia,
into the wall of the curia which he dedicated in Nicippus and his party, contrary to the feelings and
the comitium (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 4. s. 10). Father wishes of the people generally, by means of some
Liber in the temple of Concord. A Hyacinthus, degree of compulsion got the reply returned to the
painted as a beautiful youth, to signify the love of envoys, that the Messenians would not enter into
Apollo for him (comp. Paus. iii. 19. § 4); Augustus the war until Phigalea, a town on their borders,
was so delighted with the picture that he carried it to had been wrested from the Aetolians. Polybius,
Rome after the taking of Alexandria, and Tiberius in a digression, finds great fault with the policy of
dedicated it in the temple of Augustus. A Diana, this faction among the Messenians. (Polyb. iv.
probably at Ephesus, as Pliny mentions in imme- 31 ; Thirlwall, Hist. of Greece, vol. viii. p. 233,
diate connection with it the sepulchre of Megabyzus, &c. )
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the priest of Diana, at Ephesus, as painted by NI'CO. [Nicon. ]
Nicias. Lastly, what appears to bave been his NICOBU'LA (N. Kobotan), a Greek lady, quoted
master-piece, a representation of the infernal regions by Athenaeus (x. p. 434, c. xii. p. 537, d. ),
as described by Homer (Nervia, Necromantia Ho though with some doubt (Nik. T ó dvadels taúrp
meri); this was the picture which Nicias refused tà ourypáupata), as the author of a work about
to sell to Ptoleniy, although the price offered for it Alexander the Great. In the MSS. of Pliny the
was sixty talents (Plutarch, loc. sup. cit. ): Pliny name Nicobulus is found, and Harduin (Index A uo-
tells the same story of Attalus, which is a manifest torum, vol. i. p. 63) supposes that he accompanied
anachronism. Plutarch also tells that Nicias was Alexander in his expeditions. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
80 absorbed in the work during its progress, that vol. iii.
