Thessalonica lived abont 1200; he has often been
Nazianzeni Tetrasticha et Monosticha, perhaps the confounded with Nicetas Acominatus.
Nazianzeni Tetrasticha et Monosticha, perhaps the confounded with Nicetas Acominatus.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
Some minor
of the emperor Theodore Lascaris, and employed productions of Nicetas, among wbich a fragment
his time in writing that great historical work which on the ceremonies observed when a Mohammedan
has brought his name down to posterity. He died adopted the Christian religion, are extant in dif-
at Nicaea in, or perhaps after 1216. Modern ferent libraries in Europe. Michael Choniates, the
travellers have tried, but in vain, to discover his elder brother of Nicetns, wrote Movodla, being the
tomb. The Historia is a corollary of ten distinct life of Nicetas in bombastic verses, translated into
works, each of which contains one or more books, of Latin, and published by P. Morel, Paris, 1566,
which there are twenty-one, giving the history of 8vo. ; and also in the 25th vol. of the Bibl. Patr.
the emperors from 1118 down to 1206: viz. Joannes Lugdun. (Fabric. Bill. Gracc. vol. vii. p. 737, &c. ;
Comnenus (1118–1143), in one book ; Manuel Hankius, Script. Byzant. ; Leo Allatius, De Nicetis;
Comnenus (1143—1180), in seven books; Alexis llamberger, Nachrichten von gelehrten Männern;
Comnenus (1180—1183), in one book ; Andro- Harris, l. c. )
nicus Comnenus (1183—1185) in two books ; 2. Arcuidiaconus et Chartophylax Magnae
Isaac Angelus (1185—1195), in three books; Ecc Constantinopolitanae, lived about 1080,
Alexis Angelus (1195—1203), in three books ; and wrote 'Avabeuatiouoi II. , Anuthematismi
Isaac Angelus and his son Alexis (1203—1204), contra Joannem Philosophum Itulum, a treatise on
in one book ; Alexis Ducas Murzuplus (1204), in the orthodox faith, which is still esteemed in the
one book ; Urbs Capta, or the events during and Greek church, though it was never printed. It is
immediately after the taking of Constantinople extant in MS. at Venice. (Cave, Hist. Liter, ad
(1204), in one book ; Baldwin of Flanders (1204 an. 1080 ; Leo Allat. De Consensu Utriusque
1206), in one book. The mode of quoting this Eccles. I. ü. c. 10. )
historical work is thus : Nicetas, Isaac Angelus, 3. BYZANTINUS, a monk who lived about 1120,
i. 3; Urbs Capta, c. 1; Andron. Comnen. ii. 5, &c. wrote Tractatus Apologeticus pro Synodo Chulce-
Editions: Ed. princeps, by H. Wolf, with a Latin donensi adversus Armeniae Principem, ed. Leo
version, Basel, 1557, fol. ; reprinted, with an index Allatius, Graece et Latine, in the first vol. of
and a chronology by Simon Goulartius, Geneva, Graecia Orthodoxa, Rome, 1652, 4to. ; some ascribe
1593, 4to ; by Fabrot, with a most valuable Glos- this work to Nicetas Paphlago. (Cave, Hist. Liter.
sarium Graeco-barbarum, and a revised translation, ad an. 1120; Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. vii. p. 746. )
notes, &c. , Paris, 1647, fol. in the Paris collection 4. David. (See No. 9. ]
of the Byzantines; the same badly reprinted, 5. EUGENIANUS, lived probably towards the
Venice, 1729, fol. The last edition is in the Bonn end of the the twelfth century, and wrote in poetry
collection of the Byzantines, edited by J. Bekker, "The History of the Lives of Drusilla and Cha-
1835.
ricles," which is the worst of all the Greek
A Greek MS. in the Bodleian, divided into romances that have come down to us. It was
two books, and giving an account of the conquest published for the first time by Boissonade, together
of Constantinople, with special regard to the with the fragments of an erotic poem by Con-
statues destroyed by the Latins, is ascribed to stantinus Manasses, 1819, 2 vols.
Nicetas, but it seems to have been altered by a 6. GEORGIUS, of uncertain age, wrote Epistolae
later writer, who made additions. The account of de Creatione Hominis, extant in MS. at Vienna.
the statues, which is of great interest, is given by (Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. xii. p. 53. )
Fabricius quoted below, and critical investigations 7. MARONITA, chartophylax, and afterwards
concerning this MS. are given by Harris, in his archbishop of Thessalonica, lived about 1200, and
Philological Enquiries (part iii. c. 5). The work showed himself well disposed towards the con-
itself has been published by Wilken, under the templated union of the Greek and Latin churches.
title of Nicetas Narratio de Statuis antiquis, quas He wrote: 1. De Processione Spiritus Sancti Dia-
Franci, post captam anno 1204 Constantinopolin logorum Libri VIII. , in which he introduces a
destruxerunt, Lips. 1830. The four splendid Greek and a Latin discussing the above subject.
brass horses at Venice were taken by the Vene- Leo Allatius (Contra Hottinger. c. 19) gives some
tians during the plunder of Constantinople in fragments of it. 2. Responsio ad Interrogationes
1204, and fortunately escaped the barbarous Basilii Monachi, Graec. et Lat. in Leunclavius,
avarice of the Latin soldiery. We cannot wonder Jus Grueco-Rom. 3. Responsio ad Interrogationes
at seeing Nicetas deeply incensed against the con. de diversis Casibus Ecclesiast. , ibid. 4. De Mira-
querors; but though very partial in his expressions, culis S. Demetri Martyris, extant in the Bodleian.
he is generally impartial as to facts. His style is 5. Erpositio Canonum s. Canticorum S. Joan. Da-
bombastic, yet some portions of his work are most masceni, extant in MS. in Vienna. He also wrote
expressive and even beautiful. The History of some minor works. (Cave, Hist. Liter. ad an.
Nicetas, as far as it treats the conquest of Con- | 1201. )
stantinople, ought not to be studied without com- 8. NICAEANUS, chartophylax at Nicaea, of
priring it with Villehardouin's De la Conqueste de uncertain age, wrote De Schismate inter Eccles.
Constantinoble, and Paolo Ramusio's elegant work, Graecain et Romanam, extant in MS. in Paris
De Bello Constantinopolitano, &c. , Venice, 1635, and elsewhere ; Leo Allatius gives a fragment of
it in De Synodo Photian. Also perbaps De Azy
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NICETAS.
mis et Salbatorum Jejunio, el Nuptiis Sacerdotum, | Allatius gires some fragments in De Consensu, i.
which others ascribe to Nicetas Pectoratus. (Cave, 14. (Care, Hist. Liter. ad an. 1110. )
Hist. Liter. D. p. 14. )
14. Serron, archbishop of Serrae or Seres in
9. PAPHLAGO, David, perhaps bishop of Da- Macedonia, and afterwards of Heracleia, lived in
dybri in Paphlagonia, lived about 880, and became the 11th century, and has often, by Leo Allatius
known by his attachment to the patriarch Ignatius, for instance, been confounded with Nicetas Paph-
and by his attacks upon Photius. He wrote: lago. He wrote: - 1. Commenturii in XVI. Na.
1. Vita S. Ignatii Patriarchae, Graece et Latine, in zianzeni Orationes, published ad calcem Operum
Raderus (11 cta Concilii, 8vo. Ingolstadt, 1004, Naziunzeni, and separately, under the name of
4to. ); and also in the 8th vol. of Concilia. 2. Apo- Nicetas David Paphlago, Venice, 1563, 4to.
stolorum XII. Encomia XII. 3. Orationes, viz. in 2. Responsa Canonica ad Interrogationes cujusdam
Marcum Euingelistum, in Nativitatem S. Mariae, Constuntini Episcopi, Graece et Latine in Leun-
in Exultationem S. Crucis, in S. Gregorium Thea clavius, Jus Grucco-Roman. 3. Catena in Jobum,
logum, Oratio Panegyrica in S. Hyacinthum Ama- a compilation ascribed by some to one Olympio-
strensem Martyrem, all of which together with the dorus. Edit: A Latin version, by Paulus
Encomia Apostol. were published with a Latin Comitolus, Venice, 1587, 4to. ; Graece et Latine,
translation by Combéfis in Novissimum Auctuarium, by Patricius Junius, London, 1637, fol. 4. Ca-
Paris, 1672, fol. 4. Oratio Panegyrica in inclytum tcnae in Lucam, Matthucum aliosque, perhaps.
Martyrem Eustathium, &c. ed. Graece et Lat. with (Cave, llist. Liter, ad an. 1077; Fabric. Bill.
notes by Combéfis, in Illustrium Chrysti Martyrum Gracc. vol. viii. p. 431; Hamberger, Nachrichten
Triumphi, Paris, 1660, 8vo. 5. Historia Apo- von gelehrten Männern. )
crypha, lost. Nicephorus Callistus borrowed freely
15. THESSALONICENSIS, was archbishop of
from it for his Historia Eccles. 6. Liber pro Thessalonica, and wrote Dialogi Sex de Pro-
Synodo Chalcedonensi adversus Epistolam Regis Ar- cessione Spiritus Sancti, of which Leo Allatius
meniae, more probably the work of Nicetas By- gives a fragment in Contra Hottinger. Nicetas of
ZANTINUS [No. 3]. 7. Commentarü in Gregor.
Thessalonica lived abont 1200; he has often been
Nazianzeni Tetrasticha et Monosticha, perhaps the confounded with Nicetas Acominatus. (Fabric.
work of Nicetas Serron. The text, Venice, 1563, Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 756. )
(W. P. )
4to. ; a Latin version, Imola, 1588, 8vo. 7. Several NICEʻTAS, or, as his name is variously written,
hymns and minor productions. (Cave, Hist. Liter. Nicaeas or Niceas, or Nicetus or Nicetius, was by
ad an. 880; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 747. ) birth a Dacian, and bishop of a city called by
10. PecToRATUS or STETHATUS (ETnlarós), ecclesiastical writers Civitas Romatiana or Remes-
(Sterno), a monk of Constantinople, lived in the sianensis, situated in Maesia, somewhere between
middle of the llth century, and became known Naissus and Sardica. This prelate visited Italy
through his violent opposition to the union of the towards the close of the fourth century, and having
two churches, and his attacks upon Cardinal repaired to Nola for the purpose of visiting the
Humbertus and the other legates of the Pope at sepulchre of St. Felix, there gained the good-will
Constantinople. He wrote: - 1. Liber adversus of Paulinus, who celebrates, in a poem still extant,
Latinos de Azymis et Sabbatorum Jejunio, et Nup the high talents and virtues of his friend, and the
tiis Sacerdotum, ascribed by some to Nicetas zeal with which he laboured in preaching the
Nicaeanus. It was published by Basnage in the Gospel among the barbarians. Nicetas paid a
3d vol. of Canisius, Lection. Antiq. , and also by second visit to Nola A. D. 402, and it appears from
Baronius in the Appendix to the Ilth vol of the an epistle of Pope Innocentius I. (n. xvii. ed.
Annales. 2. Tractatus de Anima, extant in MS. Coustant), where he is numbered among the dig-
3. Carmen in Symeonem juniorem, ed. Graece Leo nitaries of Macedonia, that he was alive in 414.
Allatius in his Diatriba de Symeon. 4. Some Considerable confusion has been occasioned by
minur productions extant in MSS. (Cave, Hist. the mistake of Baronius, who supposed that Ni-
Liter. ad an. 1050; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. atas the Dacian, mentioned in the Roman Mar-
p. 753. )
tyrology under 7th January, was a different person
ll. RHETOR, perhaps identical with Nicetas from the Nicaeas Romatianae civitatis episcopus of
Paphlago. Among other productions the following Gennadius, and that the latter was the same with
are ascribed to him :- - 1. Several Orations known the Nicaeas of Aquileia, to whom a letter was
to Leo Allatius. 2. Diatriba in gloriosum Mar- addressed by Leo the Great in A. D. 458, — an
tyrem Pantieleemonem. 3. De Certamine et de hypothesis which forced him to prove that Aquileia
İnventione, &c. Reliquiarum S. Stephani Proto- bore the name of Civitas Romaliana. But the re-
martyris. 4. Encomium in Magnum Nicholaum searches of Holstein, Quesnel and Tillemont have
Myrobleptem et Thaumaturgum. None of these set the question at rest.
have been published. (Cave, Hist. Liter. D. p. Gennadius informs us that Nicetas composed in
14. )
a plain but elegant style instructions for those who
12. Scutariota, a native of Scutari, opposite were preparing for baptism, in six books, of which
Constantinople, of uncertain age, wrote: – 1. Ho- he gives the arguments, and also Ad lapsam Vir-
miliae III. 2. Scholia sive Annotationes in Nicetue ginem Libellus. Of these, the former is certainly
Acominati Thesaurum Orthodox. 3. Epistolae, De lost, but we find among the works of St. Jerome
Arte Rhetorica, poems and other minor productions (vol. xi. p. 178, ed. Vallarsi, vol. v. ed Bened. ), a tract
MSS. in Paris and elsewhere. (Cave, entitled Objurgatio ad Susannam Lapsam, and among
Hist. Liter. D. p. 15; Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol vii. the works of St. Ambrose (vol. ii. p. 301. ed. Bened. )
p. 755. )
the same piece under the name Tractatus ad l'ir
13. Seinus, a violent opponent of the Latins, ginem Lapsam, although it can be proved by the
against whom he wrote a small work, a Latin most convincing arguments that neither of these
translation of which begins “Non simpliciter an-
divines could have been the author. Hence it was
tiqua novis venerabiliora, &c. , and of which Leo Iconjectured by Cotelerius that it might, in reality,
extant
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generally adopted, although the matter seems to be vations, he was naturally brought into connection
involved in great doubt. (Gennadius, de Viris with the aristocratical portion of his fellow-citizens.
Ilustr. 22 ; Schönemann, Bibliotheca Patrum He was several times associated with Pericles,
Lat. vol. ï. § 17. )
(W. R. ) as strategus; and his great prudence and high
NICE'TAS or NICAEAS was, as we have character gained for him considerable influence.
noticed above, bishop of Aquileia in the middle On the death of Pericles he came forward more
of the fifth century. His remains have been care openly as the opponent of Cleon, and the other
fully collected from various sources by Mai in the demagogues of Athens ; but from his military
Scriptorum Veterum Nova Collectio e Vaticanis reputation, the mildness of his character, and the
Codicibus edita," 4to. Rom. 1833, vol. vii. p. 314-liberal use which he made of his great wealth, he
340. They consist of four short tracts : - 1. De was looked upon with respect, and some measure
Ratione Fidleis 2. De Spiritus Sancti Potentia. 3. of attachment, by all classes of the citizens. His
De diversis Appellationibus Domino nostro Jesu timidity led him to buy off the attacks of the
Christo convenientibus. 4. Erplanatio Symboli hulila sycophants. This feature of his character was
ad comprtentes, together with six fragments of a few ridiculed by more than one comic poet of the day,
lines each.
The splendour with which he discharged the office
Nicetas, who was bishop of Trèves in the of choregus exceeded anything that had been seen
middle of the sixth century, does not fall within before. On one occasion, when charged with the
the limits of this work.
[W. R. ) conduct of the Theoria to Delos, he made a re-
NICEʻTAS (Nikótas), a physician, to whom is markable display of liis wealth and munificence.
addressed one of the letters of Theophylactus, To prevent the confusion which usually ensued
archbishop of Bulgaria (Ep. 55). He is there when the Chorus landed at Delos amidst the crowd
styled “ Physician to the King," and must have of spectators, he landed first at Rheneia ; and
lived in the eleventh century alter Christ. He is, having had a bridge prepared before he left Athens,
perhaps, the same person as the compiler of a col- it was thrown across the channel between Rheneia
lection of surgical treatises, who is supposed to and Delos, in the course of the night, and by day-
have lived at Constantinople at the end of the break it was ready, adorned in the most sump-
eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century tuous manner with gilding and tapestry, for the
after Christ. It contains extracts from the works orderly procession of the Chorus. After the
of Hippocrates, Soranus, Rufus, Galen, Oribasius, ceremonies were over he consecrated a brazen palm
Paulus Aegineta, and other writers of less note; tree to Apollo, together with a piece of land, which
and is to be found in MS. in the Libraries at he purchased at the cost of 10,000 drachmae,
Paris (Codd. 2247, 2248), and Florence. Of the directing that the proceeds of it should be laid out
Laurentian MS. , which is very ancient and valu- | by the Delians ili sacrifices and feasts ; the only
able, a full account is given by Bandini in his condition which he annexed being, that they
Catal. Cod. Graec. Biblioth. Laurent. (vol. iii. p. 53, should pray for the blessing of the god upon the
&c. cod. 7), where he has also inserted a com- founder. His strong religious feeling was perhaps
plete list of the chapters contained in the volume, as much concerned in this dedication, as his desire
to the number of five hundred and eighteen. of popularity. It was told of him that he sacri-
A part of the contents of this MS. was published ficed every day, and even kept a soothsayer in his
at Florence, 1754 fol. by Antonio Cocchi, with house, that he might consult the will of the gods
the title : — “Graecorum Chirurgici Libri : Sorani not only about public affairs, but likewise respect-
unus de Fracturarum Signis, Oribasii duo de ing his own private fortunes. Aristophanes ridi-
Fractis et de Luzatis, e Collectione Nicetae,” | cules him rather severely in the Equites for his
&c. &c. The editor has added a Latin translation, timidity and superstition (l. 28, &c. , 80, 112, 358).
ard some valuable notes. The Commentary of The excessive dread which Nicias entertained of
Apollonius Citiensis on Hippocrates “De Articulis” informers led him to keep as much as possible in
was extracted from this collection. [APOLLONIUS, retirement. He made himself difficult of access ;
p. 215). (See Choulant's Handb. der Bücher and the few friends who were admitted to his pri-
kunde für die Aeltere Medicin; Dietz's Preface to vacy industriously spread the belief that he devoted
his Scholia in Hippocr. et Gal. ) (W. A. G. ] himself with such untiring zeal to the public inter-
NI'CIAS (Nixias), historical.
of the emperor Theodore Lascaris, and employed productions of Nicetas, among wbich a fragment
his time in writing that great historical work which on the ceremonies observed when a Mohammedan
has brought his name down to posterity. He died adopted the Christian religion, are extant in dif-
at Nicaea in, or perhaps after 1216. Modern ferent libraries in Europe. Michael Choniates, the
travellers have tried, but in vain, to discover his elder brother of Nicetns, wrote Movodla, being the
tomb. The Historia is a corollary of ten distinct life of Nicetas in bombastic verses, translated into
works, each of which contains one or more books, of Latin, and published by P. Morel, Paris, 1566,
which there are twenty-one, giving the history of 8vo. ; and also in the 25th vol. of the Bibl. Patr.
the emperors from 1118 down to 1206: viz. Joannes Lugdun. (Fabric. Bill. Gracc. vol. vii. p. 737, &c. ;
Comnenus (1118–1143), in one book ; Manuel Hankius, Script. Byzant. ; Leo Allatius, De Nicetis;
Comnenus (1143—1180), in seven books; Alexis llamberger, Nachrichten von gelehrten Männern;
Comnenus (1180—1183), in one book ; Andro- Harris, l. c. )
nicus Comnenus (1183—1185) in two books ; 2. Arcuidiaconus et Chartophylax Magnae
Isaac Angelus (1185—1195), in three books; Ecc Constantinopolitanae, lived about 1080,
Alexis Angelus (1195—1203), in three books ; and wrote 'Avabeuatiouoi II. , Anuthematismi
Isaac Angelus and his son Alexis (1203—1204), contra Joannem Philosophum Itulum, a treatise on
in one book ; Alexis Ducas Murzuplus (1204), in the orthodox faith, which is still esteemed in the
one book ; Urbs Capta, or the events during and Greek church, though it was never printed. It is
immediately after the taking of Constantinople extant in MS. at Venice. (Cave, Hist. Liter, ad
(1204), in one book ; Baldwin of Flanders (1204 an. 1080 ; Leo Allat. De Consensu Utriusque
1206), in one book. The mode of quoting this Eccles. I. ü. c. 10. )
historical work is thus : Nicetas, Isaac Angelus, 3. BYZANTINUS, a monk who lived about 1120,
i. 3; Urbs Capta, c. 1; Andron. Comnen. ii. 5, &c. wrote Tractatus Apologeticus pro Synodo Chulce-
Editions: Ed. princeps, by H. Wolf, with a Latin donensi adversus Armeniae Principem, ed. Leo
version, Basel, 1557, fol. ; reprinted, with an index Allatius, Graece et Latine, in the first vol. of
and a chronology by Simon Goulartius, Geneva, Graecia Orthodoxa, Rome, 1652, 4to. ; some ascribe
1593, 4to ; by Fabrot, with a most valuable Glos- this work to Nicetas Paphlago. (Cave, Hist. Liter.
sarium Graeco-barbarum, and a revised translation, ad an. 1120; Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. vii. p. 746. )
notes, &c. , Paris, 1647, fol. in the Paris collection 4. David. (See No. 9. ]
of the Byzantines; the same badly reprinted, 5. EUGENIANUS, lived probably towards the
Venice, 1729, fol. The last edition is in the Bonn end of the the twelfth century, and wrote in poetry
collection of the Byzantines, edited by J. Bekker, "The History of the Lives of Drusilla and Cha-
1835.
ricles," which is the worst of all the Greek
A Greek MS. in the Bodleian, divided into romances that have come down to us. It was
two books, and giving an account of the conquest published for the first time by Boissonade, together
of Constantinople, with special regard to the with the fragments of an erotic poem by Con-
statues destroyed by the Latins, is ascribed to stantinus Manasses, 1819, 2 vols.
Nicetas, but it seems to have been altered by a 6. GEORGIUS, of uncertain age, wrote Epistolae
later writer, who made additions. The account of de Creatione Hominis, extant in MS. at Vienna.
the statues, which is of great interest, is given by (Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. xii. p. 53. )
Fabricius quoted below, and critical investigations 7. MARONITA, chartophylax, and afterwards
concerning this MS. are given by Harris, in his archbishop of Thessalonica, lived about 1200, and
Philological Enquiries (part iii. c. 5). The work showed himself well disposed towards the con-
itself has been published by Wilken, under the templated union of the Greek and Latin churches.
title of Nicetas Narratio de Statuis antiquis, quas He wrote: 1. De Processione Spiritus Sancti Dia-
Franci, post captam anno 1204 Constantinopolin logorum Libri VIII. , in which he introduces a
destruxerunt, Lips. 1830. The four splendid Greek and a Latin discussing the above subject.
brass horses at Venice were taken by the Vene- Leo Allatius (Contra Hottinger. c. 19) gives some
tians during the plunder of Constantinople in fragments of it. 2. Responsio ad Interrogationes
1204, and fortunately escaped the barbarous Basilii Monachi, Graec. et Lat. in Leunclavius,
avarice of the Latin soldiery. We cannot wonder Jus Grueco-Rom. 3. Responsio ad Interrogationes
at seeing Nicetas deeply incensed against the con. de diversis Casibus Ecclesiast. , ibid. 4. De Mira-
querors; but though very partial in his expressions, culis S. Demetri Martyris, extant in the Bodleian.
he is generally impartial as to facts. His style is 5. Erpositio Canonum s. Canticorum S. Joan. Da-
bombastic, yet some portions of his work are most masceni, extant in MS. in Vienna. He also wrote
expressive and even beautiful. The History of some minor works. (Cave, Hist. Liter. ad an.
Nicetas, as far as it treats the conquest of Con- | 1201. )
stantinople, ought not to be studied without com- 8. NICAEANUS, chartophylax at Nicaea, of
priring it with Villehardouin's De la Conqueste de uncertain age, wrote De Schismate inter Eccles.
Constantinoble, and Paolo Ramusio's elegant work, Graecain et Romanam, extant in MS. in Paris
De Bello Constantinopolitano, &c. , Venice, 1635, and elsewhere ; Leo Allatius gives a fragment of
it in De Synodo Photian. Also perbaps De Azy
ful
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NICETAS.
NICETAS.
mis et Salbatorum Jejunio, el Nuptiis Sacerdotum, | Allatius gires some fragments in De Consensu, i.
which others ascribe to Nicetas Pectoratus. (Cave, 14. (Care, Hist. Liter. ad an. 1110. )
Hist. Liter. D. p. 14. )
14. Serron, archbishop of Serrae or Seres in
9. PAPHLAGO, David, perhaps bishop of Da- Macedonia, and afterwards of Heracleia, lived in
dybri in Paphlagonia, lived about 880, and became the 11th century, and has often, by Leo Allatius
known by his attachment to the patriarch Ignatius, for instance, been confounded with Nicetas Paph-
and by his attacks upon Photius. He wrote: lago. He wrote: - 1. Commenturii in XVI. Na.
1. Vita S. Ignatii Patriarchae, Graece et Latine, in zianzeni Orationes, published ad calcem Operum
Raderus (11 cta Concilii, 8vo. Ingolstadt, 1004, Naziunzeni, and separately, under the name of
4to. ); and also in the 8th vol. of Concilia. 2. Apo- Nicetas David Paphlago, Venice, 1563, 4to.
stolorum XII. Encomia XII. 3. Orationes, viz. in 2. Responsa Canonica ad Interrogationes cujusdam
Marcum Euingelistum, in Nativitatem S. Mariae, Constuntini Episcopi, Graece et Latine in Leun-
in Exultationem S. Crucis, in S. Gregorium Thea clavius, Jus Grucco-Roman. 3. Catena in Jobum,
logum, Oratio Panegyrica in S. Hyacinthum Ama- a compilation ascribed by some to one Olympio-
strensem Martyrem, all of which together with the dorus. Edit: A Latin version, by Paulus
Encomia Apostol. were published with a Latin Comitolus, Venice, 1587, 4to. ; Graece et Latine,
translation by Combéfis in Novissimum Auctuarium, by Patricius Junius, London, 1637, fol. 4. Ca-
Paris, 1672, fol. 4. Oratio Panegyrica in inclytum tcnae in Lucam, Matthucum aliosque, perhaps.
Martyrem Eustathium, &c. ed. Graece et Lat. with (Cave, llist. Liter, ad an. 1077; Fabric. Bill.
notes by Combéfis, in Illustrium Chrysti Martyrum Gracc. vol. viii. p. 431; Hamberger, Nachrichten
Triumphi, Paris, 1660, 8vo. 5. Historia Apo- von gelehrten Männern. )
crypha, lost. Nicephorus Callistus borrowed freely
15. THESSALONICENSIS, was archbishop of
from it for his Historia Eccles. 6. Liber pro Thessalonica, and wrote Dialogi Sex de Pro-
Synodo Chalcedonensi adversus Epistolam Regis Ar- cessione Spiritus Sancti, of which Leo Allatius
meniae, more probably the work of Nicetas By- gives a fragment in Contra Hottinger. Nicetas of
ZANTINUS [No. 3]. 7. Commentarü in Gregor.
Thessalonica lived abont 1200; he has often been
Nazianzeni Tetrasticha et Monosticha, perhaps the confounded with Nicetas Acominatus. (Fabric.
work of Nicetas Serron. The text, Venice, 1563, Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 756. )
(W. P. )
4to. ; a Latin version, Imola, 1588, 8vo. 7. Several NICEʻTAS, or, as his name is variously written,
hymns and minor productions. (Cave, Hist. Liter. Nicaeas or Niceas, or Nicetus or Nicetius, was by
ad an. 880; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 747. ) birth a Dacian, and bishop of a city called by
10. PecToRATUS or STETHATUS (ETnlarós), ecclesiastical writers Civitas Romatiana or Remes-
(Sterno), a monk of Constantinople, lived in the sianensis, situated in Maesia, somewhere between
middle of the llth century, and became known Naissus and Sardica. This prelate visited Italy
through his violent opposition to the union of the towards the close of the fourth century, and having
two churches, and his attacks upon Cardinal repaired to Nola for the purpose of visiting the
Humbertus and the other legates of the Pope at sepulchre of St. Felix, there gained the good-will
Constantinople. He wrote: - 1. Liber adversus of Paulinus, who celebrates, in a poem still extant,
Latinos de Azymis et Sabbatorum Jejunio, et Nup the high talents and virtues of his friend, and the
tiis Sacerdotum, ascribed by some to Nicetas zeal with which he laboured in preaching the
Nicaeanus. It was published by Basnage in the Gospel among the barbarians. Nicetas paid a
3d vol. of Canisius, Lection. Antiq. , and also by second visit to Nola A. D. 402, and it appears from
Baronius in the Appendix to the Ilth vol of the an epistle of Pope Innocentius I. (n. xvii. ed.
Annales. 2. Tractatus de Anima, extant in MS. Coustant), where he is numbered among the dig-
3. Carmen in Symeonem juniorem, ed. Graece Leo nitaries of Macedonia, that he was alive in 414.
Allatius in his Diatriba de Symeon. 4. Some Considerable confusion has been occasioned by
minur productions extant in MSS. (Cave, Hist. the mistake of Baronius, who supposed that Ni-
Liter. ad an. 1050; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. atas the Dacian, mentioned in the Roman Mar-
p. 753. )
tyrology under 7th January, was a different person
ll. RHETOR, perhaps identical with Nicetas from the Nicaeas Romatianae civitatis episcopus of
Paphlago. Among other productions the following Gennadius, and that the latter was the same with
are ascribed to him :- - 1. Several Orations known the Nicaeas of Aquileia, to whom a letter was
to Leo Allatius. 2. Diatriba in gloriosum Mar- addressed by Leo the Great in A. D. 458, — an
tyrem Pantieleemonem. 3. De Certamine et de hypothesis which forced him to prove that Aquileia
İnventione, &c. Reliquiarum S. Stephani Proto- bore the name of Civitas Romaliana. But the re-
martyris. 4. Encomium in Magnum Nicholaum searches of Holstein, Quesnel and Tillemont have
Myrobleptem et Thaumaturgum. None of these set the question at rest.
have been published. (Cave, Hist. Liter. D. p. Gennadius informs us that Nicetas composed in
14. )
a plain but elegant style instructions for those who
12. Scutariota, a native of Scutari, opposite were preparing for baptism, in six books, of which
Constantinople, of uncertain age, wrote: – 1. Ho- he gives the arguments, and also Ad lapsam Vir-
miliae III. 2. Scholia sive Annotationes in Nicetue ginem Libellus. Of these, the former is certainly
Acominati Thesaurum Orthodox. 3. Epistolae, De lost, but we find among the works of St. Jerome
Arte Rhetorica, poems and other minor productions (vol. xi. p. 178, ed. Vallarsi, vol. v. ed Bened. ), a tract
MSS. in Paris and elsewhere. (Cave, entitled Objurgatio ad Susannam Lapsam, and among
Hist. Liter. D. p. 15; Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol vii. the works of St. Ambrose (vol. ii. p. 301. ed. Bened. )
p. 755. )
the same piece under the name Tractatus ad l'ir
13. Seinus, a violent opponent of the Latins, ginem Lapsam, although it can be proved by the
against whom he wrote a small work, a Latin most convincing arguments that neither of these
translation of which begins “Non simpliciter an-
divines could have been the author. Hence it was
tiqua novis venerabiliora, &c. , and of which Leo Iconjectured by Cotelerius that it might, in reality,
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involved in great doubt. (Gennadius, de Viris with the aristocratical portion of his fellow-citizens.
Ilustr. 22 ; Schönemann, Bibliotheca Patrum He was several times associated with Pericles,
Lat. vol. ï. § 17. )
(W. R. ) as strategus; and his great prudence and high
NICE'TAS or NICAEAS was, as we have character gained for him considerable influence.
noticed above, bishop of Aquileia in the middle On the death of Pericles he came forward more
of the fifth century. His remains have been care openly as the opponent of Cleon, and the other
fully collected from various sources by Mai in the demagogues of Athens ; but from his military
Scriptorum Veterum Nova Collectio e Vaticanis reputation, the mildness of his character, and the
Codicibus edita," 4to. Rom. 1833, vol. vii. p. 314-liberal use which he made of his great wealth, he
340. They consist of four short tracts : - 1. De was looked upon with respect, and some measure
Ratione Fidleis 2. De Spiritus Sancti Potentia. 3. of attachment, by all classes of the citizens. His
De diversis Appellationibus Domino nostro Jesu timidity led him to buy off the attacks of the
Christo convenientibus. 4. Erplanatio Symboli hulila sycophants. This feature of his character was
ad comprtentes, together with six fragments of a few ridiculed by more than one comic poet of the day,
lines each.
The splendour with which he discharged the office
Nicetas, who was bishop of Trèves in the of choregus exceeded anything that had been seen
middle of the sixth century, does not fall within before. On one occasion, when charged with the
the limits of this work.
[W. R. ) conduct of the Theoria to Delos, he made a re-
NICEʻTAS (Nikótas), a physician, to whom is markable display of liis wealth and munificence.
addressed one of the letters of Theophylactus, To prevent the confusion which usually ensued
archbishop of Bulgaria (Ep. 55). He is there when the Chorus landed at Delos amidst the crowd
styled “ Physician to the King," and must have of spectators, he landed first at Rheneia ; and
lived in the eleventh century alter Christ. He is, having had a bridge prepared before he left Athens,
perhaps, the same person as the compiler of a col- it was thrown across the channel between Rheneia
lection of surgical treatises, who is supposed to and Delos, in the course of the night, and by day-
have lived at Constantinople at the end of the break it was ready, adorned in the most sump-
eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century tuous manner with gilding and tapestry, for the
after Christ. It contains extracts from the works orderly procession of the Chorus. After the
of Hippocrates, Soranus, Rufus, Galen, Oribasius, ceremonies were over he consecrated a brazen palm
Paulus Aegineta, and other writers of less note; tree to Apollo, together with a piece of land, which
and is to be found in MS. in the Libraries at he purchased at the cost of 10,000 drachmae,
Paris (Codd. 2247, 2248), and Florence. Of the directing that the proceeds of it should be laid out
Laurentian MS. , which is very ancient and valu- | by the Delians ili sacrifices and feasts ; the only
able, a full account is given by Bandini in his condition which he annexed being, that they
Catal. Cod. Graec. Biblioth. Laurent. (vol. iii. p. 53, should pray for the blessing of the god upon the
&c. cod. 7), where he has also inserted a com- founder. His strong religious feeling was perhaps
plete list of the chapters contained in the volume, as much concerned in this dedication, as his desire
to the number of five hundred and eighteen. of popularity. It was told of him that he sacri-
A part of the contents of this MS. was published ficed every day, and even kept a soothsayer in his
at Florence, 1754 fol. by Antonio Cocchi, with house, that he might consult the will of the gods
the title : — “Graecorum Chirurgici Libri : Sorani not only about public affairs, but likewise respect-
unus de Fracturarum Signis, Oribasii duo de ing his own private fortunes. Aristophanes ridi-
Fractis et de Luzatis, e Collectione Nicetae,” | cules him rather severely in the Equites for his
&c. &c. The editor has added a Latin translation, timidity and superstition (l. 28, &c. , 80, 112, 358).
ard some valuable notes. The Commentary of The excessive dread which Nicias entertained of
Apollonius Citiensis on Hippocrates “De Articulis” informers led him to keep as much as possible in
was extracted from this collection. [APOLLONIUS, retirement. He made himself difficult of access ;
p. 215). (See Choulant's Handb. der Bücher and the few friends who were admitted to his pri-
kunde für die Aeltere Medicin; Dietz's Preface to vacy industriously spread the belief that he devoted
his Scholia in Hippocr. et Gal. ) (W. A. G. ] himself with such untiring zeal to the public inter-
NI'CIAS (Nixias), historical.
