ship to the
preceding
is unknown.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
v.
60, &c.
); and also the Cocceius mentioned should never be examined as witnesses agninst
by Horace (Sat. 1. 5. 28, &c. ). He is sometimes their masters or patrons when accused of a crime
considered to be the grandfather of the emperor (Dion Cass. lxvii. 1). These measures
Nerva, and consequently the same person who died necessary to restore order and confidence after the
in the time of Tiberius, A. D. 33, which is not pos- suspicious and cruel administration of Domitian.
sible.
But there was weakness in the character of Nerva,
2. M. COCCEIUS NERVA, who died A. D. 33, as appears from the following anecdote. He was
was probably the son of the consul of B. C. 36: he entertaining Junius Mauricus and Fabius Veiento
was the grandfather of the emperor Nerva. This at table. Veiento had played the part of an
Nerva was consul with C. Vibius Rufinus, A. D. accuser (delator) under Domitian. The conver.
22: Tacitus (Ann. iv. 58) says that he had been sation turned on Catullus Messallinus, who was
consul. He was one of the intimate friends of then dead, but had been an infamous informer
Tiberius Caesar, who gave him the superintend- under Domitian. * What would this Catullus be
ence of the aqueducts of Rome (Frontinus, De doing," said Nerva, “ if he were alive now;" to
Aquaeduct. ii. ). Nerva accompanied Tiberius in which Mauricus bluntly replied, “ he would be
his retirement from Rome A. D. 26. In the year supping with us" (Aur. Vict. Epit. 12).
A. D. 33, he resolutely starved himself to death, The public events of his short reign were few
notwithstanding the intreaties of Tiberius, whose and unimportant; and it is chiefly his measures of
constant companion he was. Tacitus (Ann. vi. 26) internal administration of which there are any
and Dion Cassius (lviii. 21) give different reasons records. Nerva attempted to relieve the poverty
for this resolution of Nerva, but we may infer from of many of the citizens by buying land and dis-
both of them that Nerva was tired of his master. tributing it among them, one of the remedies for
Tacitus says, that he was profoundly skilled in the distress which the Romans had long tried, and
law. He is often mentioned in the Digest (43. with little advantage. The practice of occasionally
tit. 8. 8. 2 ; 16. tit. 3. & 32), and he wrote se distributing money among the poor citizens, and
veral legal works, but the title of no one of them allowances of grain, still continued under Nerva,
is mentioned.
one of the parts of Roman administration which
3. M. Cocceius Nerva, was the son of the continually kept alive the misery for which it sup-
jurist. He must have been a precocious youth, if plied temporary relief. He also diminished the
we rightly understand Ulpian (Dig. 3. tit
. i. s. 1), expences of the state by stopping many of the
when he says that he gave responsa (publice de jure public shows and festivals. Many enactments,
responsitasse) at the age of seventeen or a little more. by which we must understand Senatus consultan
He is probably the Cocceius Nerva mentioned by were passed in his time, among which the prohibi-
Tacitus (Ann. xv. 72) as Praetor Designatus. He tion against making eunuchs is worthy of notice ;
wrote a work De Usucapionibus (Dig. 41. tit. 2. but Domitian had already made the same regula-
8. 47) as Papinian states ; and he is often cited in tion in the beginning of his reign (Dion Čass.
the Digest under the name of Nerva Filius. Gaius Ixvii
. 2), whence we must conclude that the law
(Instit. ii. 195, iii. 133) cites Nerva, without saying had either been repealed or required some stricter
whether he means the father or the son. (G. L ) penalties to enforce it.
NERVA, M. COCCEIUS, Roman emperor, In the second year of his reign, Nerva was
A. D. 96–98, was born at Narnia, in Umbria (Aur. consul, for the third time, with L. Verginius Rufus,
Vict. Epit. 12), as some interpret the words of also for the third time consul. Rufus had been pro-
Victor, or rather his family was from Narnia. His claimed emperor by the soldiers in the time of Nero,
father was probably the jurist, No. 3. The time of A. D. 68, but had refused the dangerous honour.
his birth was A. D. 32, inasmuch as he died in The emperor made no difficulty about associating
January, A. D. 98, at the age of nearly sixty-six Rufus with himself in the consulship, but Rufus
(Dion Cass. lxviii. 4). He was consul with Ves- was a very old man, and soon died. Calpurnius
pasian, A. D. 71, and with Domitian, A. D. 90. Crassus, a descendant of the Crassi of the republic,
Tillemont supposes him to be the Nerva mentioned with others, conspired against the emperor, but the
by Tacitus (Ann. xv. 72), but this Nerva is, per- plot was discovered, and Nerva rebuked the con-
haps, the father of the emperor.
spirators by putting into their hands at a show of
Nerva was probably at Rome when Domitian gladiators, the swords with which the men were
was assassinated, and privy to the conspiracy, going to fight, and asking the conspirators, in the
though Aurelius Victor (de Caes. 12) seems to usual way, if they were sharp enough. This anec-
intend to say that he was in Gaul, which is very dote, if true, shows that the exhibitions of gladia-
improbable. His life was saved from the cruelty tors were in use under Nerva The text of Dion
of Domitian by the emperor's superstition, who does not state what was the punishment of Crassus,
believed an astrologer's prediction that Nerva would but Victor (Epit. 12) says that Crassus was relo-
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NÉRVA.
.
gated with his wife to Tarentum, and that the the defeat of the Illyrian army, and the capture'nt
senate blamed the emperor for his leniency ; but Gentius, and the conquest of Illyricum. In B. C.
Nerva had sworn at the commencement of his 167, he was one of the six praetors, with the pro-
reign that he would put no senator to death, and he vince of Hispania Ulterior. Drumann concludes
kept his word.
that he did not go to his province, because at the
The feebleness of the emperor was shown by a close of B. c. 167 he was one of the commissioners
mutiny of the Praetorian soldiers, who were either appointed to carry back the Thracian hostages,
urged on by their Praefectus, Aelianus Casperius, which reason is not quite conclusive. (Liv. xlv.
or had bribed him to support them. The soldiers 3, 16, 42. )
demanded the punishment of the assassins of 2. A. LIcIstUS NERVA is called the brother of
Domitian, which the einperor refused. Though Cains by Drumann, which is possible, but no proof
his body was feeble, his will was strong, and he is alleged. He was a tribunus plebis, B. c. 178,
offered them his own neck, and declared his readi- and he proposed that the consul, A. Manlius Vulso,
ness to die. However, it appears that the soldiers should not hold his command among the Istri be-
etfected their purpose, and Nerva was obliged to yond a certain day, the object of the tribune being
put Petronius Secundus and Parthenius to death, to bring Manlius to trial for misconducting the
or to permit them to be massacred by the soldiers war. (Liv. xli. 10. ) In B. c. 171 Nerva was one
(Plin. Panegyr. c. 6 ; Aur. Vict. Epit
. 12; Dion of three commissioners sent to Crete to get archers
Cass. lviii. 3). Casperius, it is said, carried his for the army of the consul P. Licinius Crassus, and
insolence so far as to compel the emperor to thank in B. c. 169 he was sent with others into Mace-
the soldiers for what they had done.
donia to examine and report on the state of the
Nerva felt his weakness, but he showed his Roman army there, and the resources of king Per-
noble character and his good sense by appointing seus. In B. c. 166, he was a praetor, with one of
as his successor a man who possessed both vigour the Hispaniae as his province. (Liv. xlii. 35, xliv.
and ability to direct public affairs. He adopted as 18, xlv. 44. )
his son and successor, without any regard to his 3. A. LICINIUS Nerva, probably the son of the
own kin, M. Ulpius Trajanus, who was then at praetor of B. c. 166. According to Drumann he
the head of an army in Germany, and probably on was praetor in B. c. 143, and in B. c. 142 governor
the Lower Rhine. It was about this time that of Macedonia, when his quaestor, L. Tremelling,
news arrived of a victory in Pannonia, which is defeated a Pseudoperseus, or a Pseudophilippus,
commemorated by a medal, and it was apparently for there seems some uncertainty about the name,
on this occasion that Nerva assumed the title of and a body of 16,000 men in arms. Nerva re-
Germanicus. He conferred on Trajan the title of ceived on this occasion the title of imperator. (Liv.
Caesar and Germanicus, and the tribunitian power. Epit. 53 ; Eutrop. iv. 15. )
Trajan was thus associated with Nerva in the 4. C. LICINIUS Nerva. His precise relation-
government, and tranquillity was restored at Rome.
ship to the preceding is unknown. He is men-
in the year a. D. 98, Nerva and Trajan were con- tioned by Cicero (Brut. 34), and contrasted with
suls. The emperor died suddenly on the 27th of L. Bestia, whence Meyer concludes that he may
January, in the sixty-third year of his age, ac- have been Bestia's colleague in the tribuneship.
cording to Victor ; but according to Dion, at the Cicero calls him a bad man, but not without some
age of sixty-five years, ten months and ten days. eloquence.
Eutropius incorrectly states that he was seventy- 5. LICINIUS NERVA, is known only from the
one. Victor records an eclipse of the sun on the day coins as a quaestor of Decimus Brutus, in the war
of Nerva's death, but the eclipse happened on the before Mutina. (Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol
21st of March, A. D. 98.
iv. p. 19, No. 85. )
The body of Nerva was carried to the pile on 6. P. LiciniUS NERVA, in B. c. 103, was pro
the shoulders of the senators, as that of Augustus praetor in Sicily at the time when the second Ser-
had been, and his remains were placed in the vile War broke out. The senate had made a de-
sepulchre of Augustus. Nerva received the honour cree that no free person of those nations which had
of deification. (The authorities for the reign of alliance and friendship with Rome should be en-
Nerva are contained in Tillemont, Histoire des Em- slaved, and it was alleged that the Publicani had
pereurs, vol. ii. , who has made some use of the seized and sold many as slaves, probably because
doubtful authority of the Life of Apollonius by Phi- they did not pay the taxes. Nerva published an
lostratus ; Dion Cass. lib. Ixviii, with the notes of edict that all persons in Sicily who were entitled
Reimarus ; Aurelius Victor. ed. Arntzenius ; and to the benefit of the decree should come to Syracuse
C. Plinius, Panegyricus, ed. Schaefer. ) [G. L. ] to make out their case. Abore eight hundred
persons thus recovered their freedom, but those
who held persons in slavery, fearing that the mat-
ter would go further, prerailed on Nerva not to
allow any further claims of freedom to be made, to
which he assented, and a rising of the slaves was
the consequence. This war lasted four years, and
was ended by the proconsul Aquillius. The his-
tory of this rising is told circumstantially by Dio.
dorus (xxxvi. ; Excerpts by Photius, Cod. 244).
The praetor by treachery gained some advantage
over the slaves, and the Roman troops after this
NERVA, LICI'NIUS. 1. C. LICINIUS Nerra, success retired to their quarters. But the disturb-
a son of C. Licinius Nerva, of whom nothing is ance soon broke out, and it assumed the form of a
known. Nerva the son was one of the legati regular war under Athenion. L. Licinins Lucullus,
who, in B. c. 168, bronght the news to Rome of the father of Lucullus, the vanquisher of Mithri.
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1169
NESTOR
daten, was sent in B. c. 102 to succeed Nerra in invaded the country of Neleus, and slew his song,
the government of Sicily.
Nestor alone was spared, because at the time he
7. A. LICINIUS NERVA SILIANUS, was adopted was not at Pylos, but among the Gerenians, where
by some Licinius Nerva, as the name Silianus he had taken reſuge. (Hom. Il xi. 692; Apollod.
shows, out of the Silia gens. He was the son of i. 7. $ 3; Paus. jii. 26. & 6. ) This story is con-
P. Silius (Vell. Pat. ii. 116), a distinguished com- nected with another about the friendship between
mander under Augustus, and consul, B. C. 20, with Heracles and Nestor, for the latter is said to have
M. Appuleius. Silianus was consul, A. D. 7, but he i taken no part in the carrying off from Heracles tho
is called Licinius Silanus in the text of Dion Cas oxen of Geryones ; and Heracles rewarded Nestor
sius (ly. 30). P. Silius, the consul of B. c. 20, ap by giving to him Messene, and became more at-
pears in the Fasti Consulares as P. Silius Nerva, tached to him even than to Hylas and Abderus.
whence it appears that the cognoinen Nerva be Nestor, on the other hand, is said to have intro-
longed to the Silii. (SILIUs. )
duced the custom of swearing by Heracles.
The authorities for the Licinii Nervae are col (Philostr. Her. 2 ; comp. Ov. Met xii. 540, &c. ;
lected by Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. iv. p. Paus. iv. 3. § 1, who states that Nestor inhabited
196, &c.
(G. L. Messenia after the death of the sons of Aphareus. )
NERVA, SI’LIUS. [NERVA, LICINIUS, No. When a young man, Nestor was distinguished as
7, and Silius)
& warrior, and, in a war with the Arcadians, he
NERVA TRAJA'NUS. (TRAJANUS. ] slew Ereuthalion. (Hom. Il. iv. 319, vii. 133, &c. ,
NERULI'NUS, the son of P. Suillius, one of xxiii. 630, &c. ) In the war with the Eleians, he
the chief instruments of the tyranny of Claudius, killed Ityinoneus, and took from them large flocks
escaped accusation when his father was tried and of cattle. (xi. 670. ) When, after this, the Eleians
condemned at the beginning of Nero's reign, A. D. laid siege to Thryoëssa, Nestor, without the war-
59, because the emperor thought that sufficient steeds of his father, went out on foon, and gained a
punishment had been inflicted on the family (Tac. glorious victory. (xi. 706, &c. ) He also took
Ann. xiii. 43). On the coins of Smyrna, struck part in the fight of the Lapithae against the
in the time of Vespasian, we find the name of M. Centaurs (i. 260, &c. ), and is mentioned among the
Suillins Nerulinus, proconsul (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. Calydonian hunters and the Argonauts (Ov. Met.
556), and it is not improbable that this is the same viii. 313 ; Val. Flacc. i. 380); but he owes his
person as the Nerulinus mentioned above. He fanie chiefly to the Homeric poems, in which his
may also be the same as the M. Suillius who was share in the Trojan war is immortalized. After
consul with L. Antistius, in the reign of Claudius, having, in conjunction with Odysseus, prevailed
A. D. 50. (Tac. Ann. xii. 50. )
upon Achilles and Patroclus to join the Greeks
NESAIA (Nnoala), a daughter of Nerus and against Troy, he sailed with his Pylians in sixty
Doris, and one of the Nereides. (Hom. Il. xviii. ships to Asia. (Il. ii. 591, &c. , xi. 767. ) At
40 ; Hes. Theog. 249. )
(L S. ] Troy he took part in all the most important events
NESEAS, painter. [Zeuxis)
that occurred, both in the council and in the field
NESIO'TËS, a sculptor, appears to have been an of battle. Agamemnon through Nestor became
assistant of the celebrated Athenian artist Critias, reconciled with Achilles, and therefore honoured
and not a surname of the latter, as some modern him highly; and whenever he was in any diffi-
writers have conjectured. (Critias, VOL. I. p. 893. ] culty, he applied for advice to Nestor. (ii. 21, x.
NESO (Nnou), one of the Nereides (Hes. 18. ) In the picture which Homer draws of him,
Theog. 261); but Lycophron (1468) mentions one the most striking features are his wisdom, justice,
Neso as the mother of the Cumaean sibyl. (L. S. ] bravery, knowledge of war, his eloquence, and his
NESSUS (Néoros). 1. The god of the river old age. (Od. iii. 126, &c. , 244, xxiv. 52, ll. i.
Nestus (also called Nessus or Nesus) in Thrace, is 273, ii. 336, 361, 370, &c. , vii.
by Horace (Sat. 1. 5. 28, &c. ). He is sometimes their masters or patrons when accused of a crime
considered to be the grandfather of the emperor (Dion Cass. lxvii. 1). These measures
Nerva, and consequently the same person who died necessary to restore order and confidence after the
in the time of Tiberius, A. D. 33, which is not pos- suspicious and cruel administration of Domitian.
sible.
But there was weakness in the character of Nerva,
2. M. COCCEIUS NERVA, who died A. D. 33, as appears from the following anecdote. He was
was probably the son of the consul of B. C. 36: he entertaining Junius Mauricus and Fabius Veiento
was the grandfather of the emperor Nerva. This at table. Veiento had played the part of an
Nerva was consul with C. Vibius Rufinus, A. D. accuser (delator) under Domitian. The conver.
22: Tacitus (Ann. iv. 58) says that he had been sation turned on Catullus Messallinus, who was
consul. He was one of the intimate friends of then dead, but had been an infamous informer
Tiberius Caesar, who gave him the superintend- under Domitian. * What would this Catullus be
ence of the aqueducts of Rome (Frontinus, De doing," said Nerva, “ if he were alive now;" to
Aquaeduct. ii. ). Nerva accompanied Tiberius in which Mauricus bluntly replied, “ he would be
his retirement from Rome A. D. 26. In the year supping with us" (Aur. Vict. Epit. 12).
A. D. 33, he resolutely starved himself to death, The public events of his short reign were few
notwithstanding the intreaties of Tiberius, whose and unimportant; and it is chiefly his measures of
constant companion he was. Tacitus (Ann. vi. 26) internal administration of which there are any
and Dion Cassius (lviii. 21) give different reasons records. Nerva attempted to relieve the poverty
for this resolution of Nerva, but we may infer from of many of the citizens by buying land and dis-
both of them that Nerva was tired of his master. tributing it among them, one of the remedies for
Tacitus says, that he was profoundly skilled in the distress which the Romans had long tried, and
law. He is often mentioned in the Digest (43. with little advantage. The practice of occasionally
tit. 8. 8. 2 ; 16. tit. 3. & 32), and he wrote se distributing money among the poor citizens, and
veral legal works, but the title of no one of them allowances of grain, still continued under Nerva,
is mentioned.
one of the parts of Roman administration which
3. M. Cocceius Nerva, was the son of the continually kept alive the misery for which it sup-
jurist. He must have been a precocious youth, if plied temporary relief. He also diminished the
we rightly understand Ulpian (Dig. 3. tit
. i. s. 1), expences of the state by stopping many of the
when he says that he gave responsa (publice de jure public shows and festivals. Many enactments,
responsitasse) at the age of seventeen or a little more. by which we must understand Senatus consultan
He is probably the Cocceius Nerva mentioned by were passed in his time, among which the prohibi-
Tacitus (Ann. xv. 72) as Praetor Designatus. He tion against making eunuchs is worthy of notice ;
wrote a work De Usucapionibus (Dig. 41. tit. 2. but Domitian had already made the same regula-
8. 47) as Papinian states ; and he is often cited in tion in the beginning of his reign (Dion Čass.
the Digest under the name of Nerva Filius. Gaius Ixvii
. 2), whence we must conclude that the law
(Instit. ii. 195, iii. 133) cites Nerva, without saying had either been repealed or required some stricter
whether he means the father or the son. (G. L ) penalties to enforce it.
NERVA, M. COCCEIUS, Roman emperor, In the second year of his reign, Nerva was
A. D. 96–98, was born at Narnia, in Umbria (Aur. consul, for the third time, with L. Verginius Rufus,
Vict. Epit. 12), as some interpret the words of also for the third time consul. Rufus had been pro-
Victor, or rather his family was from Narnia. His claimed emperor by the soldiers in the time of Nero,
father was probably the jurist, No. 3. The time of A. D. 68, but had refused the dangerous honour.
his birth was A. D. 32, inasmuch as he died in The emperor made no difficulty about associating
January, A. D. 98, at the age of nearly sixty-six Rufus with himself in the consulship, but Rufus
(Dion Cass. lxviii. 4). He was consul with Ves- was a very old man, and soon died. Calpurnius
pasian, A. D. 71, and with Domitian, A. D. 90. Crassus, a descendant of the Crassi of the republic,
Tillemont supposes him to be the Nerva mentioned with others, conspired against the emperor, but the
by Tacitus (Ann. xv. 72), but this Nerva is, per- plot was discovered, and Nerva rebuked the con-
haps, the father of the emperor.
spirators by putting into their hands at a show of
Nerva was probably at Rome when Domitian gladiators, the swords with which the men were
was assassinated, and privy to the conspiracy, going to fight, and asking the conspirators, in the
though Aurelius Victor (de Caes. 12) seems to usual way, if they were sharp enough. This anec-
intend to say that he was in Gaul, which is very dote, if true, shows that the exhibitions of gladia-
improbable. His life was saved from the cruelty tors were in use under Nerva The text of Dion
of Domitian by the emperor's superstition, who does not state what was the punishment of Crassus,
believed an astrologer's prediction that Nerva would but Victor (Epit. 12) says that Crassus was relo-
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gated with his wife to Tarentum, and that the the defeat of the Illyrian army, and the capture'nt
senate blamed the emperor for his leniency ; but Gentius, and the conquest of Illyricum. In B. C.
Nerva had sworn at the commencement of his 167, he was one of the six praetors, with the pro-
reign that he would put no senator to death, and he vince of Hispania Ulterior. Drumann concludes
kept his word.
that he did not go to his province, because at the
The feebleness of the emperor was shown by a close of B. c. 167 he was one of the commissioners
mutiny of the Praetorian soldiers, who were either appointed to carry back the Thracian hostages,
urged on by their Praefectus, Aelianus Casperius, which reason is not quite conclusive. (Liv. xlv.
or had bribed him to support them. The soldiers 3, 16, 42. )
demanded the punishment of the assassins of 2. A. LIcIstUS NERVA is called the brother of
Domitian, which the einperor refused. Though Cains by Drumann, which is possible, but no proof
his body was feeble, his will was strong, and he is alleged. He was a tribunus plebis, B. c. 178,
offered them his own neck, and declared his readi- and he proposed that the consul, A. Manlius Vulso,
ness to die. However, it appears that the soldiers should not hold his command among the Istri be-
etfected their purpose, and Nerva was obliged to yond a certain day, the object of the tribune being
put Petronius Secundus and Parthenius to death, to bring Manlius to trial for misconducting the
or to permit them to be massacred by the soldiers war. (Liv. xli. 10. ) In B. c. 171 Nerva was one
(Plin. Panegyr. c. 6 ; Aur. Vict. Epit
. 12; Dion of three commissioners sent to Crete to get archers
Cass. lviii. 3). Casperius, it is said, carried his for the army of the consul P. Licinius Crassus, and
insolence so far as to compel the emperor to thank in B. c. 169 he was sent with others into Mace-
the soldiers for what they had done.
donia to examine and report on the state of the
Nerva felt his weakness, but he showed his Roman army there, and the resources of king Per-
noble character and his good sense by appointing seus. In B. c. 166, he was a praetor, with one of
as his successor a man who possessed both vigour the Hispaniae as his province. (Liv. xlii. 35, xliv.
and ability to direct public affairs. He adopted as 18, xlv. 44. )
his son and successor, without any regard to his 3. A. LICINIUS Nerva, probably the son of the
own kin, M. Ulpius Trajanus, who was then at praetor of B. c. 166. According to Drumann he
the head of an army in Germany, and probably on was praetor in B. c. 143, and in B. c. 142 governor
the Lower Rhine. It was about this time that of Macedonia, when his quaestor, L. Tremelling,
news arrived of a victory in Pannonia, which is defeated a Pseudoperseus, or a Pseudophilippus,
commemorated by a medal, and it was apparently for there seems some uncertainty about the name,
on this occasion that Nerva assumed the title of and a body of 16,000 men in arms. Nerva re-
Germanicus. He conferred on Trajan the title of ceived on this occasion the title of imperator. (Liv.
Caesar and Germanicus, and the tribunitian power. Epit. 53 ; Eutrop. iv. 15. )
Trajan was thus associated with Nerva in the 4. C. LICINIUS Nerva. His precise relation-
government, and tranquillity was restored at Rome.
ship to the preceding is unknown. He is men-
in the year a. D. 98, Nerva and Trajan were con- tioned by Cicero (Brut. 34), and contrasted with
suls. The emperor died suddenly on the 27th of L. Bestia, whence Meyer concludes that he may
January, in the sixty-third year of his age, ac- have been Bestia's colleague in the tribuneship.
cording to Victor ; but according to Dion, at the Cicero calls him a bad man, but not without some
age of sixty-five years, ten months and ten days. eloquence.
Eutropius incorrectly states that he was seventy- 5. LICINIUS NERVA, is known only from the
one. Victor records an eclipse of the sun on the day coins as a quaestor of Decimus Brutus, in the war
of Nerva's death, but the eclipse happened on the before Mutina. (Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol
21st of March, A. D. 98.
iv. p. 19, No. 85. )
The body of Nerva was carried to the pile on 6. P. LiciniUS NERVA, in B. c. 103, was pro
the shoulders of the senators, as that of Augustus praetor in Sicily at the time when the second Ser-
had been, and his remains were placed in the vile War broke out. The senate had made a de-
sepulchre of Augustus. Nerva received the honour cree that no free person of those nations which had
of deification. (The authorities for the reign of alliance and friendship with Rome should be en-
Nerva are contained in Tillemont, Histoire des Em- slaved, and it was alleged that the Publicani had
pereurs, vol. ii. , who has made some use of the seized and sold many as slaves, probably because
doubtful authority of the Life of Apollonius by Phi- they did not pay the taxes. Nerva published an
lostratus ; Dion Cass. lib. Ixviii, with the notes of edict that all persons in Sicily who were entitled
Reimarus ; Aurelius Victor. ed. Arntzenius ; and to the benefit of the decree should come to Syracuse
C. Plinius, Panegyricus, ed. Schaefer. ) [G. L. ] to make out their case. Abore eight hundred
persons thus recovered their freedom, but those
who held persons in slavery, fearing that the mat-
ter would go further, prerailed on Nerva not to
allow any further claims of freedom to be made, to
which he assented, and a rising of the slaves was
the consequence. This war lasted four years, and
was ended by the proconsul Aquillius. The his-
tory of this rising is told circumstantially by Dio.
dorus (xxxvi. ; Excerpts by Photius, Cod. 244).
The praetor by treachery gained some advantage
over the slaves, and the Roman troops after this
NERVA, LICI'NIUS. 1. C. LICINIUS Nerra, success retired to their quarters. But the disturb-
a son of C. Licinius Nerva, of whom nothing is ance soon broke out, and it assumed the form of a
known. Nerva the son was one of the legati regular war under Athenion. L. Licinins Lucullus,
who, in B. c. 168, bronght the news to Rome of the father of Lucullus, the vanquisher of Mithri.
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daten, was sent in B. c. 102 to succeed Nerra in invaded the country of Neleus, and slew his song,
the government of Sicily.
Nestor alone was spared, because at the time he
7. A. LICINIUS NERVA SILIANUS, was adopted was not at Pylos, but among the Gerenians, where
by some Licinius Nerva, as the name Silianus he had taken reſuge. (Hom. Il xi. 692; Apollod.
shows, out of the Silia gens. He was the son of i. 7. $ 3; Paus. jii. 26. & 6. ) This story is con-
P. Silius (Vell. Pat. ii. 116), a distinguished com- nected with another about the friendship between
mander under Augustus, and consul, B. C. 20, with Heracles and Nestor, for the latter is said to have
M. Appuleius. Silianus was consul, A. D. 7, but he i taken no part in the carrying off from Heracles tho
is called Licinius Silanus in the text of Dion Cas oxen of Geryones ; and Heracles rewarded Nestor
sius (ly. 30). P. Silius, the consul of B. c. 20, ap by giving to him Messene, and became more at-
pears in the Fasti Consulares as P. Silius Nerva, tached to him even than to Hylas and Abderus.
whence it appears that the cognoinen Nerva be Nestor, on the other hand, is said to have intro-
longed to the Silii. (SILIUs. )
duced the custom of swearing by Heracles.
The authorities for the Licinii Nervae are col (Philostr. Her. 2 ; comp. Ov. Met xii. 540, &c. ;
lected by Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. iv. p. Paus. iv. 3. § 1, who states that Nestor inhabited
196, &c.
(G. L. Messenia after the death of the sons of Aphareus. )
NERVA, SI’LIUS. [NERVA, LICINIUS, No. When a young man, Nestor was distinguished as
7, and Silius)
& warrior, and, in a war with the Arcadians, he
NERVA TRAJA'NUS. (TRAJANUS. ] slew Ereuthalion. (Hom. Il. iv. 319, vii. 133, &c. ,
NERULI'NUS, the son of P. Suillius, one of xxiii. 630, &c. ) In the war with the Eleians, he
the chief instruments of the tyranny of Claudius, killed Ityinoneus, and took from them large flocks
escaped accusation when his father was tried and of cattle. (xi. 670. ) When, after this, the Eleians
condemned at the beginning of Nero's reign, A. D. laid siege to Thryoëssa, Nestor, without the war-
59, because the emperor thought that sufficient steeds of his father, went out on foon, and gained a
punishment had been inflicted on the family (Tac. glorious victory. (xi. 706, &c. ) He also took
Ann. xiii. 43). On the coins of Smyrna, struck part in the fight of the Lapithae against the
in the time of Vespasian, we find the name of M. Centaurs (i. 260, &c. ), and is mentioned among the
Suillins Nerulinus, proconsul (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. Calydonian hunters and the Argonauts (Ov. Met.
556), and it is not improbable that this is the same viii. 313 ; Val. Flacc. i. 380); but he owes his
person as the Nerulinus mentioned above. He fanie chiefly to the Homeric poems, in which his
may also be the same as the M. Suillius who was share in the Trojan war is immortalized. After
consul with L. Antistius, in the reign of Claudius, having, in conjunction with Odysseus, prevailed
A. D. 50. (Tac. Ann. xii. 50. )
upon Achilles and Patroclus to join the Greeks
NESAIA (Nnoala), a daughter of Nerus and against Troy, he sailed with his Pylians in sixty
Doris, and one of the Nereides. (Hom. Il. xviii. ships to Asia. (Il. ii. 591, &c. , xi. 767. ) At
40 ; Hes. Theog. 249. )
(L S. ] Troy he took part in all the most important events
NESEAS, painter. [Zeuxis)
that occurred, both in the council and in the field
NESIO'TËS, a sculptor, appears to have been an of battle. Agamemnon through Nestor became
assistant of the celebrated Athenian artist Critias, reconciled with Achilles, and therefore honoured
and not a surname of the latter, as some modern him highly; and whenever he was in any diffi-
writers have conjectured. (Critias, VOL. I. p. 893. ] culty, he applied for advice to Nestor. (ii. 21, x.
NESO (Nnou), one of the Nereides (Hes. 18. ) In the picture which Homer draws of him,
Theog. 261); but Lycophron (1468) mentions one the most striking features are his wisdom, justice,
Neso as the mother of the Cumaean sibyl. (L. S. ] bravery, knowledge of war, his eloquence, and his
NESSUS (Néoros). 1. The god of the river old age. (Od. iii. 126, &c. , 244, xxiv. 52, ll. i.
Nestus (also called Nessus or Nesus) in Thrace, is 273, ii. 336, 361, 370, &c. , vii.
