]
nicia, by sending constant succours to the besieged.
nicia, by sending constant succours to the besieged.
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S.
]
the one mentioned in the Etymologicum Magnum NICODEMUS (N. kód nuos), historical. 1. A
(s. v. okáł04). Libanius (vol. i. p. 24) likewise tyrant of Centoripa in Sicily, who was driven out
mentions a rhetorician of Constantinople of this by Timoleon, B. c. 339. (Diod. xvi. 82. )
name. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 373; Wester- 2. An Athenian of the deme Aphidnae, a partizan
mann, Geschichte der Griechischen Beredtsamkeit, of Eubulus. He was murdered by Aristarchus,
$ 102, n. 1. )
(L. S. ] the son of Moschus. Demosthenes, for no other
NICO'CRATES (Nekokpátns). 1. A Cyprian reason apparently than that he was opposed to the
of this name collected an extensive library, in very party of Eubulus, was suspected of having been
early times. (Athen. i. p. 3, a. )
privy to the murder (Dem. Meid. p. 549 ; Schol.
2. Archon of Athens, B. c. 333. (Diod. xvii. 29; Ulpian. ad p. 548 ; Deinarch. c. Dem. p. 24, ed.
Dionys. Deinarch, vol. ij. p. 116. ) Deinarchus Reiske).
pleaded against him, in behalf of Nicomachus. A man of the name of Nicodemus also figures
(Dionys. Deinarch. vol. ii. p. 118. )
in the speech of Isaeus, περί του Πύρρου κλήρου.
3. A Lacedaemonian rhetorician twice referred 3. A Messenian, mentioned by Plutarch (Dem.
to by Seneca. (Suasor. ii. ad extr. Controver. iii. p. 852, a. ), who contrasts his political tergiversation
20, ad extr. ) In the latter passage, he calls him (he had first espoused the cause of Cassander, after-
aridus et exsiccus declamator. Westermann wards that of Demetrius) with the conduct of
(Gesch. der Griech. Beredt. p. 188) calls him Ni- Demosthenes.
cocratus.
4. A native of Elis, sent by Philopnemen at the
4. A writer, otherwise unknown, quoted re- head of an embassy to Rome, B. c. 187. (Polyb.
garding a report that no one could sleep on the xxiii. 1, 7. )
[C. P. M. ]
island of Aegae, sacred to Poseidon, on account of NICODE'MUS (N. koorjuos), of Heracleia
the god's appearance on the island, by the Scho- Seren epigrams written by him have by an in-
liast on Apoll. Rhod. i. 831. (W. M. G. ) advertence of Brunck been attributed to Nico-
NICO'CREON (Nikokpéwv), l. King of Sa- demus, the physician of Smyrna. They are of
lamis in Cyprus, at the time of Alexander's ex- the childish class of epigrams, called årtiompé-
pedition into Asia. He submitted to the conqueror | φοντα, or ανακυκλίκα, in which the sense is
in common with the other princes of Cyprus, with the same, though each distich be read from end
out opposition; and in B. C. 33), after the return to beginning, instead of from beginning to end.
of Alexander from Egypt, repaired to Tyre to pay The epigrams of Nicodemus consist of two lines
homage to that monarch, where he distinguished each, in the elegiac measure, and seem to have
himself by the magnificence which he displayed in been principally inscriptions for statues and pic-
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1192
NICOLAUS.
NICOLAUS.
tures. (Anth. Gruec. vol. iii. p. 91, vol. xiii. p. 923, 8. HYDRUNTIvs, lived at the beginning of the
ed. Jacobs. )
(W. M. G. ) thirteenth century, in the reign of Alexins IV.
NICODORUS (Nekódwpos), a native of Man- | Comnenus, and was distinguished by his opposition
tineia, who, with the advice of Diagoras the Melian, to the Latin church, against which he published
acted as lawgiver in his native city. (Aelian, several works, of which an account is given by
V. H. ii. 23. )
(C. P. M. ] Cave (ad ann. 1201) and Fabricius (Bill. Graec.
NICOLAUS (Nekólaos, Nikonéws), historical
. vol. xi. p. 287).
1. Father of Bulis, the Spartan. (Herod. vii. 134. ) 9. Of METHONE in the Peloponnesus, of which
2. Son of Bulis, was associated with Aneristus place he was archbishop, lived probably in the
in his embassy to Persia, in B. C. 430, and, toge- twelfth century, and also wrote many works
ther with him, was put to death by the Athenians against the Latin church, for an account of which
[ANERISTUS. )
we must again refer to Fabricius (vol. xi. p. 290)
3. A Syracusan, who lost two sons in the war and the authorities which he cites. Nicolaus
with Athens, but at its conclusion, in B. C. 413, of Methone also deserves to be mentioned as one
endeavoured to persuade his countrymen to spare of the opponents of the Neo-Platonic philosophers.
the Athenian prisoners. (Diod. xiii. 19—27. ) lle published a work in reply to the Etoixeiwois
4. An Aetolian, and a general of Ptolemy IV. Deodoyurs of Proclus: this work of Nicolaus was
(Philopator). In B. c. 219 we find him besieging published for the first time by J. Th. Voemel, under
Ptolemaïs, which was held by the traitor Theodotus, the title of Nicolai Metkoncnsis Refutatio Institutionis
who had revolted from Ptolemy to Antiochus the Theologicae Procli Plutonici, Francf. 1825.
Great. Nicolaus, however, abandoned the siege 10. Or MYRAE. (See No. 17. )
on the approach of the Syrian king (LAGORAS). Jl. Myrepsue. (See below, No. 3. ]
In the same year he did much towards baffling the 12. PEPAGOMENUS. [PEPAGOMENUS. )
attempt of Antiochus on Dura or Dora in Phoe- 13. PRAEPOSITUS. [See below, No. 4.
]
nicia, by sending constant succours to the besieged. 14. RHABDA. [See No. 1, and RHABDA. ]
In B. c. 218 he was invested by Ptolemy with the 15. SECUNDINUS. [SECUNDIN US. )
supreme command in Coele-Syria, an appointment 16. Of SMYRNA. (See No. 1. ]
fully warranted, according to Polybius, by his 17. The SOPHist, lived under Leo I. , and down
military experience and bravery. He was, how to the reign of Anastasius, consequently in the
ever, dislodged by Antiochus and his generals latter half of the fifth century, was a pupil of Pro-
from a strong position which he had taken up be- clus. Suidas (s. v. Nek. ) mentions two works of his,
tween the range of Mount Libanus and the sea | Προγυμνάσματα and Mελέται ρητορικαί. Ρart of
near the town of Porphyreon, and was obliged to the ſpoyuuváopata had been previously published
seek safety in a precipitate flight towards Sidon. as the work of Libanius, but has more recently ap-
It may be conjectured that after this he deserted peared as the work of Nicolaus, in Walz's Rhetor.
to Antiochus: at least, we find the name of Nico-Graec. vol. i. pp. 266--420. Suidas (s. v. ) men.
laus of Aetolia mentioned among the generals of tions another sophist, a native of Myrae in Cilicia,
the Syrian king in his campaign in Hyrcania, B. C. and a pupil of Lachares, who taught at Constan-
209. (Polyb. v. 61, 66, 68, 69, x. 29. ) [E. E. ] tinople, and was the author of a Téxon Antopish
NICOLA'US (Nikólaos), literary. Nicolaus and Menétai. (Fabric. Bibl. Gracc. vol. vi. p. 134;
is the name of a great many writers and eccle- Westermann, Geschichte der Griech. Beredtsankeit,
siastics in the times of the Byzantine empire, but $ 104, n. 10. )
only the most important of them are mentioned NICOLA'US (Nikólaos), the name of several
below. A full list of them is given in Fabricius physicians, who are often confounded, and whom it
(Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 286).
does not seem possible to distinguish with certainty.
1. ARTABASDA ('Aptabáoons), of Smyma, of 1. The person quoted by Galen (De Compos.
uncertain but late age, is called in a Vatican ma- Medicam. sec. Gen. v. 11, vol. xiii. p. 831) must
nuscript 'Αρταβάσδης, αριθμητικός και γεωμέτρης | have lived in or before the second century after
ó 'Pasta. He was the author of a work on the Christ. He may, perhaps, be the physician, of
art of counting with the fingers ("Exopaois Toll whose medical formulae one is quoted by Paulus
JAKTVAIKOÙ uét pov), which has been published by Aegineta (iv. 37, vii. 17. pp. 520, 678) and Nico-
F. Morel, Paris, 1614 ; Possin. Catena Graec. laus Myrepsus (x. 143, p. 579). A pharmaceutical
Patrum in Marcum, p. 449, Rome, 1673 ; J. A. author of the same name is said by Fabricius
Fabric. Observ. in raria Loca Novi Testam. p. 159, (Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. pp. 5, 346, ed. vet. ) to be quoted
Hamb. 1712; and J. G. Schneider, Eclogae physicae, | by Aëtius, but the writer has not been able to find
p. 477. (Schöll, Geschichte der Griechischen Lil- the name in the place referred to (x. 27).
teratur, vol. iii. pp. 315—347. )
2. A native of Laodiceia, who lived, according
2. CabasiLAS. (CaBasilas. ]
to Abú-l-Faraj (Ilist. Dynast. p. 88), in the latter
3. ChaLCOCONDYLES. [CHALCOCONDSLES. ] half of the fourth century after Christ. He wrote
4. Of ConstanTINOPLE, of which he was pa- a work “De Summa Philosophiae Aristotelicae,"
triarch from a. D. 1084 to 11ll, wrote several which was translated into Syriac by Honain Ibn
decrees and letters, of which an account is given by Ishak ; another “ De Plantis,” which is quoted
Cave. (Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. ii. p. 156, ed. Basil. ; | by 'Abd G-l-Latif (Histor. Aegypti Compend. pp. 19,
Fabric. Bibl. Graec, vol. xi. p. 285. )
27); and a third, “ Liber Responsionis ad illos
5. DAMASCENUS. [DAMASCENUS. ]
qui Rem unam esse statuunt Intellectum et Intel
6. EUBOICUS. [SECUNDINUS. )
ligibilia. ” To these Wenrich (De Auctor. Gràccor.
7. HAGIOTHEODORETUS, was archbishop of Version. et Comments Syriac. Àrab. Armen. et Pers.
Athens in the twelfth century, in the reign of Lips. 1842, p. 294) adds two others, viz. “ Com-
Manuel Comnenus. He is known as a jurist, who pendium Philosophiae Aristoteleae," and “Aris.
wrote a commentary upon the Basilica. (Fabric. totelis Historia Animalium in Compendium re-
Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 633. )
dacta. ” (See also De Sacy's Note on Abdu l-Latif,
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De Philosophia Aristotelis " is quoted by Rhazes quired considerable wealth, and to have been the
(Contin. xi. 4, vol. i. p. 228, ed. 1506).
principal physician of his age. He is sometimes
3. Nicolaus Myrepsus (Nikólaos ó Mupeyós, or said to be the author of two pharmaceutical works,
the ointment-maker), the author of a Greek phar- a large one called “ Antidotariun Magnum," or
Inaceutical work, which is still extant. He is “Nicolaus Major" (or Mumus), for the use of
probably the same physician who is mentioned by druggists, and a smaller one, chiefly used by physi-
Georgius Acropolita as being eminent in his pro-cinus, and called “Antidotariun larvum,” or “Ni-
fession, but very ignorant of natural philosophy. colaus Miror" (or Purrus). This, however, ap-
(Hist. Byzant. c. 39, p. 34, ed. Paris. 1651. ) Ile pears to be a mistake that has arisen from
was at the court of Joannes III. Vatatzes at confounding his work with that of Nicolaus My-
Nicaca, when the eclipse of the sun took place repsus, thongh (its we have seen) they are totally
(Oct. 6. 1241), that shortly preceded the death of different books, though treating of the same
the empress Írene. llere he was held in great subject. The “Antidotarium" is written in
esteem by the emperor, and attained the dignity of Latin, and was, during the middle ages, one of
Actuarius (id.
the one mentioned in the Etymologicum Magnum NICODEMUS (N. kód nuos), historical. 1. A
(s. v. okáł04). Libanius (vol. i. p. 24) likewise tyrant of Centoripa in Sicily, who was driven out
mentions a rhetorician of Constantinople of this by Timoleon, B. c. 339. (Diod. xvi. 82. )
name. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 373; Wester- 2. An Athenian of the deme Aphidnae, a partizan
mann, Geschichte der Griechischen Beredtsamkeit, of Eubulus. He was murdered by Aristarchus,
$ 102, n. 1. )
(L. S. ] the son of Moschus. Demosthenes, for no other
NICO'CRATES (Nekokpátns). 1. A Cyprian reason apparently than that he was opposed to the
of this name collected an extensive library, in very party of Eubulus, was suspected of having been
early times. (Athen. i. p. 3, a. )
privy to the murder (Dem. Meid. p. 549 ; Schol.
2. Archon of Athens, B. c. 333. (Diod. xvii. 29; Ulpian. ad p. 548 ; Deinarch. c. Dem. p. 24, ed.
Dionys. Deinarch, vol. ij. p. 116. ) Deinarchus Reiske).
pleaded against him, in behalf of Nicomachus. A man of the name of Nicodemus also figures
(Dionys. Deinarch. vol. ii. p. 118. )
in the speech of Isaeus, περί του Πύρρου κλήρου.
3. A Lacedaemonian rhetorician twice referred 3. A Messenian, mentioned by Plutarch (Dem.
to by Seneca. (Suasor. ii. ad extr. Controver. iii. p. 852, a. ), who contrasts his political tergiversation
20, ad extr. ) In the latter passage, he calls him (he had first espoused the cause of Cassander, after-
aridus et exsiccus declamator. Westermann wards that of Demetrius) with the conduct of
(Gesch. der Griech. Beredt. p. 188) calls him Ni- Demosthenes.
cocratus.
4. A native of Elis, sent by Philopnemen at the
4. A writer, otherwise unknown, quoted re- head of an embassy to Rome, B. c. 187. (Polyb.
garding a report that no one could sleep on the xxiii. 1, 7. )
[C. P. M. ]
island of Aegae, sacred to Poseidon, on account of NICODE'MUS (N. koorjuos), of Heracleia
the god's appearance on the island, by the Scho- Seren epigrams written by him have by an in-
liast on Apoll. Rhod. i. 831. (W. M. G. ) advertence of Brunck been attributed to Nico-
NICO'CREON (Nikokpéwv), l. King of Sa- demus, the physician of Smyrna. They are of
lamis in Cyprus, at the time of Alexander's ex- the childish class of epigrams, called årtiompé-
pedition into Asia. He submitted to the conqueror | φοντα, or ανακυκλίκα, in which the sense is
in common with the other princes of Cyprus, with the same, though each distich be read from end
out opposition; and in B. C. 33), after the return to beginning, instead of from beginning to end.
of Alexander from Egypt, repaired to Tyre to pay The epigrams of Nicodemus consist of two lines
homage to that monarch, where he distinguished each, in the elegiac measure, and seem to have
himself by the magnificence which he displayed in been principally inscriptions for statues and pic-
464
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21. 25. 10
SEKS, SIA
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FOR NIKOLLEJI
## p. 1192 (#1208) ##########################################
1192
NICOLAUS.
NICOLAUS.
tures. (Anth. Gruec. vol. iii. p. 91, vol. xiii. p. 923, 8. HYDRUNTIvs, lived at the beginning of the
ed. Jacobs. )
(W. M. G. ) thirteenth century, in the reign of Alexins IV.
NICODORUS (Nekódwpos), a native of Man- | Comnenus, and was distinguished by his opposition
tineia, who, with the advice of Diagoras the Melian, to the Latin church, against which he published
acted as lawgiver in his native city. (Aelian, several works, of which an account is given by
V. H. ii. 23. )
(C. P. M. ] Cave (ad ann. 1201) and Fabricius (Bill. Graec.
NICOLAUS (Nekólaos, Nikonéws), historical
. vol. xi. p. 287).
1. Father of Bulis, the Spartan. (Herod. vii. 134. ) 9. Of METHONE in the Peloponnesus, of which
2. Son of Bulis, was associated with Aneristus place he was archbishop, lived probably in the
in his embassy to Persia, in B. C. 430, and, toge- twelfth century, and also wrote many works
ther with him, was put to death by the Athenians against the Latin church, for an account of which
[ANERISTUS. )
we must again refer to Fabricius (vol. xi. p. 290)
3. A Syracusan, who lost two sons in the war and the authorities which he cites. Nicolaus
with Athens, but at its conclusion, in B. C. 413, of Methone also deserves to be mentioned as one
endeavoured to persuade his countrymen to spare of the opponents of the Neo-Platonic philosophers.
the Athenian prisoners. (Diod. xiii. 19—27. ) lle published a work in reply to the Etoixeiwois
4. An Aetolian, and a general of Ptolemy IV. Deodoyurs of Proclus: this work of Nicolaus was
(Philopator). In B. c. 219 we find him besieging published for the first time by J. Th. Voemel, under
Ptolemaïs, which was held by the traitor Theodotus, the title of Nicolai Metkoncnsis Refutatio Institutionis
who had revolted from Ptolemy to Antiochus the Theologicae Procli Plutonici, Francf. 1825.
Great. Nicolaus, however, abandoned the siege 10. Or MYRAE. (See No. 17. )
on the approach of the Syrian king (LAGORAS). Jl. Myrepsue. (See below, No. 3. ]
In the same year he did much towards baffling the 12. PEPAGOMENUS. [PEPAGOMENUS. )
attempt of Antiochus on Dura or Dora in Phoe- 13. PRAEPOSITUS. [See below, No. 4.
]
nicia, by sending constant succours to the besieged. 14. RHABDA. [See No. 1, and RHABDA. ]
In B. c. 218 he was invested by Ptolemy with the 15. SECUNDINUS. [SECUNDIN US. )
supreme command in Coele-Syria, an appointment 16. Of SMYRNA. (See No. 1. ]
fully warranted, according to Polybius, by his 17. The SOPHist, lived under Leo I. , and down
military experience and bravery. He was, how to the reign of Anastasius, consequently in the
ever, dislodged by Antiochus and his generals latter half of the fifth century, was a pupil of Pro-
from a strong position which he had taken up be- clus. Suidas (s. v. Nek. ) mentions two works of his,
tween the range of Mount Libanus and the sea | Προγυμνάσματα and Mελέται ρητορικαί. Ρart of
near the town of Porphyreon, and was obliged to the ſpoyuuváopata had been previously published
seek safety in a precipitate flight towards Sidon. as the work of Libanius, but has more recently ap-
It may be conjectured that after this he deserted peared as the work of Nicolaus, in Walz's Rhetor.
to Antiochus: at least, we find the name of Nico-Graec. vol. i. pp. 266--420. Suidas (s. v. ) men.
laus of Aetolia mentioned among the generals of tions another sophist, a native of Myrae in Cilicia,
the Syrian king in his campaign in Hyrcania, B. C. and a pupil of Lachares, who taught at Constan-
209. (Polyb. v. 61, 66, 68, 69, x. 29. ) [E. E. ] tinople, and was the author of a Téxon Antopish
NICOLA'US (Nikólaos), literary. Nicolaus and Menétai. (Fabric. Bibl. Gracc. vol. vi. p. 134;
is the name of a great many writers and eccle- Westermann, Geschichte der Griech. Beredtsankeit,
siastics in the times of the Byzantine empire, but $ 104, n. 10. )
only the most important of them are mentioned NICOLA'US (Nikólaos), the name of several
below. A full list of them is given in Fabricius physicians, who are often confounded, and whom it
(Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 286).
does not seem possible to distinguish with certainty.
1. ARTABASDA ('Aptabáoons), of Smyma, of 1. The person quoted by Galen (De Compos.
uncertain but late age, is called in a Vatican ma- Medicam. sec. Gen. v. 11, vol. xiii. p. 831) must
nuscript 'Αρταβάσδης, αριθμητικός και γεωμέτρης | have lived in or before the second century after
ó 'Pasta. He was the author of a work on the Christ. He may, perhaps, be the physician, of
art of counting with the fingers ("Exopaois Toll whose medical formulae one is quoted by Paulus
JAKTVAIKOÙ uét pov), which has been published by Aegineta (iv. 37, vii. 17. pp. 520, 678) and Nico-
F. Morel, Paris, 1614 ; Possin. Catena Graec. laus Myrepsus (x. 143, p. 579). A pharmaceutical
Patrum in Marcum, p. 449, Rome, 1673 ; J. A. author of the same name is said by Fabricius
Fabric. Observ. in raria Loca Novi Testam. p. 159, (Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. pp. 5, 346, ed. vet. ) to be quoted
Hamb. 1712; and J. G. Schneider, Eclogae physicae, | by Aëtius, but the writer has not been able to find
p. 477. (Schöll, Geschichte der Griechischen Lil- the name in the place referred to (x. 27).
teratur, vol. iii. pp. 315—347. )
2. A native of Laodiceia, who lived, according
2. CabasiLAS. (CaBasilas. ]
to Abú-l-Faraj (Ilist. Dynast. p. 88), in the latter
3. ChaLCOCONDYLES. [CHALCOCONDSLES. ] half of the fourth century after Christ. He wrote
4. Of ConstanTINOPLE, of which he was pa- a work “De Summa Philosophiae Aristotelicae,"
triarch from a. D. 1084 to 11ll, wrote several which was translated into Syriac by Honain Ibn
decrees and letters, of which an account is given by Ishak ; another “ De Plantis,” which is quoted
Cave. (Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. ii. p. 156, ed. Basil. ; | by 'Abd G-l-Latif (Histor. Aegypti Compend. pp. 19,
Fabric. Bibl. Graec, vol. xi. p. 285. )
27); and a third, “ Liber Responsionis ad illos
5. DAMASCENUS. [DAMASCENUS. ]
qui Rem unam esse statuunt Intellectum et Intel
6. EUBOICUS. [SECUNDINUS. )
ligibilia. ” To these Wenrich (De Auctor. Gràccor.
7. HAGIOTHEODORETUS, was archbishop of Version. et Comments Syriac. Àrab. Armen. et Pers.
Athens in the twelfth century, in the reign of Lips. 1842, p. 294) adds two others, viz. “ Com-
Manuel Comnenus. He is known as a jurist, who pendium Philosophiae Aristoteleae," and “Aris.
wrote a commentary upon the Basilica. (Fabric. totelis Historia Animalium in Compendium re-
Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 633. )
dacta. ” (See also De Sacy's Note on Abdu l-Latif,
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p. 77. ) This is no doubt the Nicolaus, whose work to have belonged to a poble family, to have ac-
De Philosophia Aristotelis " is quoted by Rhazes quired considerable wealth, and to have been the
(Contin. xi. 4, vol. i. p. 228, ed. 1506).
principal physician of his age. He is sometimes
3. Nicolaus Myrepsus (Nikólaos ó Mupeyós, or said to be the author of two pharmaceutical works,
the ointment-maker), the author of a Greek phar- a large one called “ Antidotariun Magnum," or
Inaceutical work, which is still extant. He is “Nicolaus Major" (or Mumus), for the use of
probably the same physician who is mentioned by druggists, and a smaller one, chiefly used by physi-
Georgius Acropolita as being eminent in his pro-cinus, and called “Antidotariun larvum,” or “Ni-
fession, but very ignorant of natural philosophy. colaus Miror" (or Purrus). This, however, ap-
(Hist. Byzant. c. 39, p. 34, ed. Paris. 1651. ) Ile pears to be a mistake that has arisen from
was at the court of Joannes III. Vatatzes at confounding his work with that of Nicolaus My-
Nicaca, when the eclipse of the sun took place repsus, thongh (its we have seen) they are totally
(Oct. 6. 1241), that shortly preceded the death of different books, though treating of the same
the empress Írene. llere he was held in great subject. The “Antidotarium" is written in
esteem by the emperor, and attained the dignity of Latin, and was, during the middle ages, one of
Actuarius (id.
