Clymene
heavens, declared that it could, the king held out a was a daughter of Catreus, and she and her sister
whetstone and a razor to cut it with.
heavens, declared that it could, the king held out a was a daughter of Catreus, and she and her sister
whetstone and a razor to cut it with.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
step-son of Murena. (Cic. pro Muren. 35, pro (Plut. Brut. p. 998, b. )
[C. P. M. ]
Dom. 52. )
NAU'CRATES (Navkpárns), literary. 1.
3. PINARIUS Natta, a client of Sejanus, and Surnamed Erythraeus, and termed by Suidas (s.
one of the two accusers of Cremutius Cordus, A. D. v. Isocrates) 'Epupalos Navkpatítns, was a disci-
25. (Tac. Ann. iv. 31. )
ple of Isocrates. He is mentioned among the
4. Natta, a person satirised by Horace (Sat. i. orators who competed (B. C. 352) for the prize
6. 124) for his dirty meanness, was probably a offered by Artemisia for the best funeral oration
member of the noble Pinarian family, and therefore delivered over Mausolus. (Suidas, s. v. Theodectes,
attacked by Horace for such conduct.
et l. c. ; Gell. 1. 68. ) He wrote on the subject of
The coin annexed refers to some Pinarius Natta, rhetoric. From the incidental notice taken of his
but who he was is quite uncertain. The obverse writings by Cicero (De Orat. iii. 44), we may
represents a winged head of Pallas, the reverse infer that he shared in and defended the technical
Victory in a chariot drawn by two horses.
refinement of his master. In one of his treatises
we learn from Quintilian (iii. 6) that he applied
* Hence we frequently find Natta or Nacca the word otáous, as the appropriate technical term
given as a cognomen in the Fulvia gens, as is stated for the status or quaestio, the consideration of a
in the article FULVIA GENS ; but if Drumann's case in its most general aspect, and that some
supposition is correct, and we believe it is, this is a regarded him as the inventor of the term so ap
mistake.
plied.
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As Isocrates wrote models for judicial and poli- | In addition to the verses which bear his name,
tical orations, Naucrates furnished models (none of there has been conjecturally attributed to him a
which are extant) of funeral orations, celebrating moral poem, assigned by Gesner to Phocylides,
men of public fame. (Dionys. vol. ii. p. 39, ed. which Brunck thinks inferior to the known pro-
Sylburg. )
ductions of Naumachius. There are three frag-
Eustathius twice refers to a commentary on ments of this author in hexameters preserved by
Homer by Naucrates Erythraeus, who may, per- Stobaeus. . Eleven lines of what seems to be an
haps, be regarded as identified with the rhetorician introduction to a poem on the due management of
by the term Sophistu which he applies to him. the marriage state on the part of women ; the in-
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 484, 517. ) But troduction, however, dissuading from marriage, and
the manner in which the commentator is men recommending celibacy. 2. Fifty-eight lines of
tioned by Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. Epubpd), what seems to be the poem itself. The instruc-
solely in connection with the commentary, renders tions are exceedingly comprehensive, including
it doubtful whether there may not have been two most sensible and prudent directions for the be-
of the same name.
haviour of a good wife to a wide and to a foolish
2. Stobaeus mentions the saying of one Nau- husband, for the regulation of her household, her
crates, whom he designates ó copos (vol. i. p. 390, choice of companions, and her dress. He disap
ed. Gaisford).
(W. M. G. ) proves of second marriages, and enjoins cheerful-
NALCY'DES (Naukúdns), an Argive statuary, ness and discrction. 3. Four lines and a portion
the son of Mothon, and the brother and teacher of of a fifth, depreciating gold, precious stones, and
Polycleitus II. of Argos, made a gold and ivory purple clothing. The first and third fragments
statue of Hebe, which stood by the celebrated have more of poetry than the larger piece, but
statue of Hera by Polycleitus I. in the Heraeum the language of all is pure, and the style glowing
near Mycenae ; a bronze statue of Hecate at and spirited. It must have been from a seeming
Argos ; and several statues of athletes. (Paus. ii. allusion in the first to the superiority of celibacy,
17. & 5, 22. & 8, vi. 6. § 1, 8. $ 3, 9. & 1. ) Tatian as introducing to a mystic marriage, where the
mentions his statue of Erinna the poetess. (Adv. virgin becomes queen of women, that the suggestion
Graec. 51, p. 113, Worth. ) Pliny, who places him at has been made that Naumachius was a Christian
01. 90, B. C. 420 (H. N. xxxiv. 8. 6. 19), men- writer. If so, however, we could not have failed
tions his Mercury, Discobolus, and a man sacri- to detect in the second extract some allusion to the
ficing a ram (Ibid. § 19). Besides his brother injunctions of Scripture on the subject. But there
Polycleitus, Alypus of Sicyon was bis disciple. seems to be no reason to doubt that his notions
(Paus. vi. 1. & 2; comp. Thiersch, Epochen, pp. were purified by an acquaintance with the maxims
143, 150, 282, 283, and Sillig, Catal. Artif. of Christianity. (Stobaeus, rol. iii. pp. 22, 68,
[P. S. ] 234, ed. Gaisford ; translated by Hugo Grotius in
NA'VIUS. (Naevius, No. 1. )
Stobaeus, iv. p. 164, &c. p. 187, &c. , 224, ed.
NA'VIUS, ATTUS, a renowned angur in the Gaisford; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 721,
time of Taiqninius Priscus. In his boyhood he 726. )
(W. M. G. )
showed his skill in the art before he had received NAU'PLIUS (Navalios). 1. A son of Po-
any instruction ; but after he had been taught by seidon and Amymone, of Argos, a famous nari-
the Etruscans, he excelled all the angurs of his gator, and father of Proetus and Damastor (Apollon.
time. The niost extraordinary proof of his know-Rhod. i. 136, &c. ; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv.
ledge of augury is related in the legend of Tar- 1091). He is the reputed founder of the town of
quinius Priscus. This king proposed to double the Nauplia, which derived its name from him (Paus.
number of the equestrian centuries, and to name ii. 38. $ 2, iv. 35. § 2 ; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 54).
the three new ones after himself and two of his He is also said to have discovered the constellation
friends, but was opposed by Navius, because Ro of the great bear. (Theon, ad Arat. Phaen, 27;
mulus had originally arranged the equites under Paus. viii. 48. & 5; Strab. vii. p. 368. )
the sanction of the auspices, and consequently no 2. A son of Clytoneus, was one of the Argonants
alteration could be made in them without the same and a descendant of Nauplius, No. 1. (Apollon.
sanction. The tale then goes on to say that the Rhod. i. 134. )
king thereupon commanded him to divine whether 3. A king of Euboea, and father of Palamedes,
what he was thinking of in his mind could be eax and Nausimedon, either by Clymene or Phi-
done, and that when Narius, after consulting the lyra or Hesione (Apollod. i. 1. § 4).
Clymene
heavens, declared that it could, the king held out a was a daughter of Catreus, and she and her sister
whetstone and a razor to cut it with. He imme- Aerope had been given by their father to Nauplius,
diately cut it. A statue of Attus was placed in who was to carry them to some foreign country;
the comitium, on the steps of the senate-house, the but Nauplius married Clymene, and gave Aerope
place where the miracle had been wrought, and to Pleisthenes, who became by her the father of
beside the statue the whetstone was preserved. Agamemnon and Menelaus (Apollod. iii. 2. & 2).
There was a current report, according to Dionysius, His son Palamedes had been condemned to death
that Attus fell a victim to the anger of Tarquin. by the Greeks during the siege of Troy, and as
Attus Navius seems to be the best orthography, Nauplius considered his condemnation to be an act
making Attus an old praenomen, though we fre- of injustice, he watched for the return of the Greeks,
quently find the name written Attius. (Liv. i. 36 ; and as they approached the coast of Euboea, he
Flor. i. 5 ; Aurel. Vict. de Vir. II. 6; Dionys. iii. lighted torches on the most dangerous part of the
70—72 ; Cic. de Div. i. 17, de Nat. Deor. ii. 3, coast. The sailors thus misguided suffered ship-
jii. 6, de Rep. ii. 20 ; Niebuhr, Hist of Rome, vol. wreck, and perished in the waves or by the sword
1. pp. 360, 361. )
of Nauplius (Philostr. Her. x. 11; Schol. ad
NAUMA'CHIUS (Navuáxlos), a Gnomic poet. Eurip. Orest. 422 ; Tzetz, ad Lycoph. 384 ; Hygin.
Of the age in which he lived nothing is known. ( Fab. 116). He is further said to have wreaked his
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NEANTHES.
It was pro-
vengeance on the Greeks by sending false messages NAXUS (Názos), a son of Polemo and father
to the wives of the heroes fighting at Troy, and of Leucippus, gave his name to the island of Naxos,
thus to have led them to faithlessness towards their which had before been called Dia. (Diod. v.
husbands og to self-destruction. (Eustath. ad Hom. 51. )
[L. S. ]
p. 24 ; Tzetz, l. c. ; Paus. i. 22. $ 6. ). (L. S. ) NAZA'RIUS. The ninth piece in the col-
NAUSICAA (Navoiráa), the daughter of Alci- lection of the “ Panegyrici Veteres " (see DRB-
nous, king of the Phaeacians and Arete, became PANTUS] bears the title Nazarü Panegyricus Con-
the friend of Odysseus (Hom. Od. vi. 16, &c. ; stantino Augusto. It was delivered at Rome (c. 38)
comp. ODYSSEUS). Later writers represent her as at the beginning of the fifth year of the Caesars,
the wife of Telemachus, by whom she is said to Crispus and Constantine, which commenced on the
have become the mother of Perseptolis or Ptoli- 1st of March A. D. 321 (cc. 1,2). It is chiefly
porthus. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1796 ; Dict. Cret. occupied with the praises of Constantine, the
vi. 6. )
(L. S. ) father, who is proposed as the bright exemplar of
NÁUSI'CRATES (Navoikpárns), a Greek every virtue to his sons. The circumstance that
comic poet, doubtfully placed by Clinton (F. H. the emperor was not present (c. 3, comp. c. 36),
vol. ii. p. xlv. ) among the writers of the middle renders the grossness of the flattery somewhat less
comedy. Meineke (Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. odious. With regard to the author we find two
p. 495) infers the same thing, from his tragico- notices in the version of the Eusebian Chronicle by
comic style. Suidas (s. v. ) attributes to him two Jerome, the one under A. D. 315, “Nazarius in-
plays, Ναυκλήροι and Περσίς. Athenaeus (ix. signis rhetor habetur ;" the other under A. D. 337,
p. 399, e. ), when giving an extract from the play“ Nazarii rhetoris filia in eloquentia patri co-
called Nepois, calls him Naucrates ; but this is aequatur," both of which we may fairly conclude
clearly an error ; or it may be a shortened form, reſer to the author this oration. Ausonius also
similar to those adduced by Lobeck, in his edition notices incidentally an “illustrious” rhetorician,
of Aglaophamus (pp. 994, 996). From the frag- Nazarius, who may be the same person. (Prof.
ments preserved by Athenaeus, consisting of twelve Burdig. xiv. )
lines from the Naukanipou and three from the The eighth piece in the above collection, styled
Tiepols, we can infer nothing of the plot ; but there Incerti Panegyricus Constantino Augusto dictus,
is some bumour in his inflated description of the from the resemblance in style as well as from an
mullet and the blue shark in the passages from expression in the ninth (c. 30), is generally believed
the former play. These passages are most in- to be also the work of Nazarius.
geniously dovetailed and amended by Meineke nounced at Trèves by a native of Gaul (c. 1), in
(vol. iv. p. 575, &c. ). (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. the year a. D. 313, and celebrates in the most
ii. p. 471 ; Athen. l. c. vii. p. 296, a. p. 325, e. turgid language the victory over Maxentius. (For
p. 330, b. )
[W. M. G. ] authorities and illustrations see the references at
NAUSI’MEDON. (NAUPLIUS, No. 3. ) the end of DREPANIUS, EUMENIUS, MAMER-
NAUSI'NOUS (Navoivoos), a son of Odysseus TINUS. )
(W. R. )
by Calypso, and brother of Nausithous. "(Hes. NEA ERA (Néaipa). 1. A nymph, who became
Theog. 1017; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1796. ) [L. S. ] by Helios the mother of Lamperia and Phaetusa.
NAUSI'PHANES (Navoipávns), a native of (Hom. Od. xii. 133. )
Teos, attached to the philosophy of Democritus, 2. A daughter of Pereus, and the wife of Aleus,
and, according to Sextus Empiricus, a disciple of by whom she became the mother of Auge, Cepheus,
Pyrrhon. He had a large nuinber of pupils, and and Lycurgus. (Apollod. iji. 9. § 1 ; Paus. viii, 4.
was particularly famous as a rhetorician. Epicurus $ 3, who calls her the wife of Autolycus. )
was at one time one of his hearers, and as he could 3. One of the daughters of Niobe. (Apollod.
not deny this, though he was anxious to be con- iii. 5. $ 3. )
sidered a self-taught man, he was obliged to 4. The wife of Strymon, and mother of Evadne.
content himself with abusing him, and maintaining (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 2.