His wife, his sons, together NIGRINIANO ; on the reverse, a funeral pyre, or an
with his whole family, shared the same fate, and eagle, or an altar, or an eagle upon an altar, with
his property was confiscated.
with his whole family, shared the same fate, and eagle, or an altar, or an eagle upon an altar, with
his property was confiscated.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
13.
“Εκάτη.
14.
Mά.
| Suetonius for a statement respecting the death of
γειρος. 15. Ωτις. 16. NAOÛTOS. 17. Lúpos. the consul Hirtius. (Suet. Aug. 11. )
18. 'Aπελαυνόμενος. 19. Ψευδοστιγματίας. (Fabric. NIGER, BRUTI'DIUS, aedile a. D. 22, and
Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 472 ; Meineke, Hist. Crit. one of the accusers of D. Silanus (Tac. Ann. iii.
Com. Graec. pp. 316, &c. ; Bode, Gesch. der Hellen. 66). He appears to be the same as the Brutidius
Dichtkunst, vol. iii. part. ii. p. 410. )
of whom Juvenal speaks (x. 82) in his account of
2. A dramatic writer mentioned by Diogenes the fall of Sejanus, and likewise the same as the
Laërtius (iv. 18). He bore the nickname of Kau Brutidius Niger, of whose writings ihe elder Seneca
Tawuvrotpa, and is probably a different person from has preserved two passages relating to the death of
the preceding. Meineke is inclined to believe him Cicero. (Senec. Suas. 7. )
to have been the author of the Theseis, mentioned NIGER, Q. CAECI’LIUS, by birth a Sicilian
by Diogenes Laërtius (ii
. 59), though some MSS. and quaestor of Verres during his administration of
there have the reading Πυθόστρατος.
Sicily, endeavoured to obtain the conduct of the
3. A tragic actor, who lived before B. c. 420. accusation of Verres, pretending to be his enemy,
He is confounded by Suidas (s. v. ) with the son of but in reality desiring to deprive the Sicilians of
Aristophanes. (Xen. Symp. iii. 11; Plut. Moral. I the powerful advocacy of Cicero. The speech of
p. 348, f. , Append. Vatic. i. 65; Meineke, Hist. Cicero, entitled Divinatio in Q. Caecilium, was de-
Crit. Com. Graec. p. 347. )
livered against this Caecilius, when the judices had
4. A rhetorician, a native of Macedonia. He to decide to which of the two the prosecution
lived in the time of M. Antoninus. According to should be entrusted,
Suidas (s. v. ) he was the author of the following NIGER, LENTULUS. (LENTULUS, No. 33. ]
works: Δεκαμυθία, Εικόνες, Πολυμυθία, θαλατ- NIGER, NOʻVIUS, quaestor in B. C. 63, was
Toupyoi, and several other works, encomia on the appointed to investigate the cases of the Catilinarian
emperor, and various others. Some of his púboi conspirators, and Caesar, who was then praetor,
were in a dramatic form. Philostratus (ile Vit. was charged by L. Vettius as one of Catiline's con-
Sophist. ii. 31) praises the elegance of his style. spirators. Caesar subsequently cast Novius into
(Fabric. Bil. Graec. vol. vi. p. 135. )
prison for permitting a magistrate of higher rank to
5. A native of Trapezus, who lived in the reign be accused before him. (Suet. Caes. 17. )
of Aurelian. He wrote an account of the exploits NIGER, C. PESCE'NNIUS, was descended
of Philippus, the successor of Gordianus among the from a respectable family of equestrian rank, which
Arabs ; and also an account of Decius, Gallus, had attained to provincial distinction at Aquinum.
Valerianus, and the son of Gallienus, up to the The name of his father was Annius Fuscus, his
time of the expedition of Valerianus against Sapor, mother was Lampridia. After having long served
the king of the Persians, A. D. 259. (Voss. de as a centurion he passed with credit through the
Hist. Gruec. p. 288, ed. Westermann. )
various stages of military advancement under Mar-
6. A writer on music, mentioned in a fragment cus Aurelius ard his son, was raised by the latter to
annexed to Censorinns, and attributed to him by the consulship, and appointed to the command of
many. (Voss. de Hist. Gracc. p. 475. ) [C. P. M. ] the Syrian armies, chiefly, it is said, through the
NICO STRATUS (NIKÓOtpatos), a physician, interest of Narcissus, the favourite athlete of the
mentioned by Antiphanes the younger (ap. Athen.
xiii. 51, p. 506; Harpocr. 8. v. 'Artikupa) as • That is, if in the passage in question for
having left to a courtezan, at his death, a large | Τάνιτρον του Ασκληπιάδου we read τα Νέγρο)
quantity of hellebore, whence she acquired the Toû 'AOKATIT vadelou.
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prince. After intelligence had reached the East of ment of the provinces, and he might undoubtedly
the death of Commodus, of the shameful elevation have proved most useful to the state could he have
and of the miserable end of Julianus, Pescennius remained satisfied with filling a subordinate sta-
was saluted er peror by his troops, A. D. 193. Nor tion, but he was led astray by the counsels of
were his prospects altogether hopeless. Severus, Severus Aurelianus whose daughters were betrothed
his former friend, was, indeed, in possession of the to his sons, and who persuaded him to persevere,
capital, but it was well known that he was re against his own better judgment, in the attempt to
garded with evil eyes by the senate, who, as well mount the throne. The invectives of the emperor
as the populace, had even before the death of Severus, who represented him as a hypocrite and a
Julianus openly declared their partiality to Niger. debauchee, must be attributed to jealous rancour ;
His chances of success, moreover, were perhaps and, although he was but moderately versed in litera-
rendered more complicated, but by no means dimi-ture, harsh in his address, and under the dominion of
nished, by the pretensions of Clodius Albinus, who, strong and vehement passions, he is well entitled
although he had for the time being, acknowledged to the comprehensive praise of having been a good
the claims of Severus, and professed himself satis- soldier, a good officer, and good general. (Dion Cass.
fied with the second title of Caesar, was holding lxxii. 8, Ixxiii. 13, 14, Ixxiv. 6–8; Spartian.
the armies of Gaul in hand, ready to take advan-Julian. 5, Sever. 6-9, Pescenn. Niyer ; Aur. Vict.
tage of any opportunity which might offer. But de Cues. 20, Epit. 20 ; Eutrop. viii. 10. ) (W. R. )
Pescennius was 10 match for the vigorous activity
of his rival. While still loitering listlessly in fan-
cied security at Antioch, he received information
that Severus was already marching to the East, at
the head of a powerful force. Then, at length, he
occupied Thrace and Northern Greece, threw
strong garrisons into Byzantium and the most im-
portant cities of Asia, fortified the defiles of Taurus,
and, at the same time, attempted, but without suc-
AT
cess, to open negotiations by offering to divide the
empire. The first battle was fought by his chief
legate Aemilianus, who having encountered the
general of Severus in the vicinity of Cyzicus was NIGER, TRE'BIUS, one of the companions of
routed and slain. This engagement was followed L. Lucullus, proconsul in Hispania Baetica, R. Co
by a second near Nicaea in Bithynia, in which 150, wrote a work on natural history which is re-
Pescennius commanded in person with no better ferred to by Pliny (H. N. ix. 25. s. 41, 30. s. 48,
fortune ; the third encounter, which took place on xxxii. 2. s. 6).
the gulph of Issus near the Cilician gates, decided NIGIDIUS FI'GULUS. (FIGULUS. ]
the war, for having been defeated after a bloody NIGRINIANUS, a Roman Caesar or Augustus,
contest in which no less than 20,000 of his men known to us from medals only, and these struck
are said to have fallen, and Antioch having soon after his death. They are very rare, but exist in
after been captured, the pretender fled towards the all the three metals, bearing upon the obverse a
Euphrates, was overtaken, brought back, and put head, either bare or radiated, with the legend Divo
to death A. D. 194.
His wife, his sons, together NIGRINIANO ; on the reverse, a funeral pyre, or an
with his whole family, shared the same fate, and eagle, or an altar, or an eagle upon an altar, with
his property was confiscated. His head, fixed the word CONSECRATIO. It has been conjectured
upon a pole, was despatched to Byzantium, which that he was the son of Alexander, who assumed the
still held out against the conqueror, and was ex- purple in Africa, A. D. 311, and was soon after
hibited to the besieged as a significant warning of destroyed by Maxentius. There is not, however,
what they might expect should they continue to a jot of evidence in favour of this hypothesis.
offer an obstinate resistance.
(Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 520. )
(W. R. ]
Dion Cassius speaks of Niger as a person not very
conspicuous for good or for evil, deserving neither
much censure nor much praise. His most marked
characteristics, both physical and moral, were all
of a military cast, and he is said to have set up Ca-
millus, Annibal, and Marius as his models. He
was tall of stature, muscular in limb, but graceful
withal, a proficient in athletic exercises, and gifted
with a voice so loud and clear, that he could be
heard distinctly at the distance of a mile. His
cognomen of Niger is said to have been derived
from the extreme swarthiness of his throat, although
otherwise fair skinned and of ruddy complexion. NIGRI'NUS, AVI'DIUS, was proconsnl in a
Spartianus has preserved many anecdotes of the province in the reign of Domitian, but his name
firmness with which he enforced the most rigid does not occur in the Fasti. (Plin. Ep. x. 71. s.
discipline upon all under his command, but he | 74, 72. s. 75. )
preserved his popularity by the strict impartiality NIGRI'NUS, C. PETRO'NIUS PO'NTIUS,
which he displayed, and by the bright example of consul A. D. 37, the year in which the emperor
frugality, temperance, and hardy endurance of toil Tiberius died. (Dion Cass. lvüi. 27; Suet. Tib.
which he exhibited in his own person. We are told 73 ; Tac. Ann. vi. 45. )
that he proposed to M. Aurelius and to Commodus NILEUS (Nelaeus), a Greek physician, whose
many salutary regulations for the better govern- | name is sometimes written Nilus (Neixos) and
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Neleus (Noneus), though Neineus is probably the | Nilus, which had not been printed in the above-
most correct form of the word, as it is the most mentioned edition, were published by Possinus,
He must have lived some time in or Paris, 1039, 4to. ; but the best edition of his
before the third century B. C. , as he is mentioned iniscellaneous works is that of Suaresius, entitled
by Heracleides of Tarentum (ap. Galen. Comment. S. Nili Tractatus scu Opuscula, Rome, 1673, fol. The
in Hippocr. “ De Artic. ” iv. 40, vol. xviii. pt. i. letters of Nilus, which are very numerous, being
p. 736). He is quoted by Celsus (v. 18. $ 9, more than three hundred, were first published by
vi. 6. SS 8, 11, viii. 20. pp. 86, 120, 121, 185), Possinus, Paris, 1657, 4to. ; but a better edition is
Caelius Aurelianus (De Morb. Acut. ii. 29, p. 142), the one published at Rome, 1668, fol. , with the
Galen (De Compos. Medicum. scc. Loc. ii. 2, iv. 8, Latin version of Leo Allatius. Of the various
viii. 5, ix. 2, vol. xii. pp. 568, 569, 765, 766, works of Nilus the most important are, 1. Κεφά-
806, vol. xiii. pp. 181, 182, 239, De Antid. ii. daca i napawvégers, containing advice on the way
10, vol. xiv. p. 165), Alexander Trallianus (viii. in which a Christian should live ; in fact, a sum-
12. p. 268), Oribasius (Synops. iii. p. 50 ; and mary of practical divinity. 2. Letlers, for the
Coll. Medic. in Mai's Class. Auct. e Codic. Vatic. most part on the same subject as the preceding work.
Edit, vol. iv. pp. 123, 130, 131, 153, 155), Aëtius 3. ’EFIKTÍTOU enxeiplôcov, in which the Manual of
(i. 4, 10, ï. 3, 21, 24, 108, ii. 4, 2, iii. 1, 16, 17, Epictetus, as given by Arrian, is accommodated to
pp. 166, 307, 308, 353, 365, 454, 455), and the use of Christians. This manual, which appears
Paulus Aegineta (iji. 22, 37, 46, 49, vii. 16, 18, in the edition of Suaresius mentioned above, is also
pp. 432, 458, 470, 473, 672, 684), and was cele published in the fifth volume of Schweighäuser's
brated for the invention of a machine for the re- Epictetus, Lips. 1800. (Phot. I. c. ; Niceph. II. E.
duction of dislocations, called ithivolov, of which a xiv. 54 ; Allatius, Fabric. II. cc. ; Cave, llist. Lit.
description is given by Oribasius (De Machinam. vol. i. p. 428 ; Tillemont, Mém. de l'Hist. Eccl.
c. 8. p. 167. )
(W. A. G. ) vol. xiv. p. 189. )
NILO'XENUS (NELótevos). ]. A native of 2. CABASILAS. (CABASILAS. )
Naucratis in Egypt, mentioned by Plutarch ( Sept. 3. Of Rhodes, of which he was metropolitan,
Sap. Conv. 2) as a sage who lived in the time of about A. D. 1360. He is stated, however, to have
Solon.
been a native of Chios. He was the author of
2. A Macedonian, son of Satyrus. He was a several works, of which the most important was a
friend of Alexander the Great, and was left by him short history of the nine oecumenical councils,
with an army to superintend the affairs of the pro- published by H. Justellus as an appendix to the
vince, when he founded Alexandria on Mount Cau- Nomocanon of Photius, Paris, 1615, 4to. ; by Voel-
casus. (Arr. iii. 28. )
(C. P. M. ] lius and Justellus in Bibl. Juris Canonici, 1661,
NILUS (Neidos), the god of the river Nile in fol. vol. ii. p. 1155 ; and by Harduinus, Concilia,
Egypt, is said to have been a son of Oceanus and vol. v. p. 1479. Nilus also wrote some grammati-
Thetys, and father of Memphis and Chione. (Hes. cal works, of which an account is given by F.
Theog. 338 ; A pollod. ii. 1. $ 4; Serv.
γειρος. 15. Ωτις. 16. NAOÛTOS. 17. Lúpos. the consul Hirtius. (Suet. Aug. 11. )
18. 'Aπελαυνόμενος. 19. Ψευδοστιγματίας. (Fabric. NIGER, BRUTI'DIUS, aedile a. D. 22, and
Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 472 ; Meineke, Hist. Crit. one of the accusers of D. Silanus (Tac. Ann. iii.
Com. Graec. pp. 316, &c. ; Bode, Gesch. der Hellen. 66). He appears to be the same as the Brutidius
Dichtkunst, vol. iii. part. ii. p. 410. )
of whom Juvenal speaks (x. 82) in his account of
2. A dramatic writer mentioned by Diogenes the fall of Sejanus, and likewise the same as the
Laërtius (iv. 18). He bore the nickname of Kau Brutidius Niger, of whose writings ihe elder Seneca
Tawuvrotpa, and is probably a different person from has preserved two passages relating to the death of
the preceding. Meineke is inclined to believe him Cicero. (Senec. Suas. 7. )
to have been the author of the Theseis, mentioned NIGER, Q. CAECI’LIUS, by birth a Sicilian
by Diogenes Laërtius (ii
. 59), though some MSS. and quaestor of Verres during his administration of
there have the reading Πυθόστρατος.
Sicily, endeavoured to obtain the conduct of the
3. A tragic actor, who lived before B. c. 420. accusation of Verres, pretending to be his enemy,
He is confounded by Suidas (s. v. ) with the son of but in reality desiring to deprive the Sicilians of
Aristophanes. (Xen. Symp. iii. 11; Plut. Moral. I the powerful advocacy of Cicero. The speech of
p. 348, f. , Append. Vatic. i. 65; Meineke, Hist. Cicero, entitled Divinatio in Q. Caecilium, was de-
Crit. Com. Graec. p. 347. )
livered against this Caecilius, when the judices had
4. A rhetorician, a native of Macedonia. He to decide to which of the two the prosecution
lived in the time of M. Antoninus. According to should be entrusted,
Suidas (s. v. ) he was the author of the following NIGER, LENTULUS. (LENTULUS, No. 33. ]
works: Δεκαμυθία, Εικόνες, Πολυμυθία, θαλατ- NIGER, NOʻVIUS, quaestor in B. C. 63, was
Toupyoi, and several other works, encomia on the appointed to investigate the cases of the Catilinarian
emperor, and various others. Some of his púboi conspirators, and Caesar, who was then praetor,
were in a dramatic form. Philostratus (ile Vit. was charged by L. Vettius as one of Catiline's con-
Sophist. ii. 31) praises the elegance of his style. spirators. Caesar subsequently cast Novius into
(Fabric. Bil. Graec. vol. vi. p. 135. )
prison for permitting a magistrate of higher rank to
5. A native of Trapezus, who lived in the reign be accused before him. (Suet. Caes. 17. )
of Aurelian. He wrote an account of the exploits NIGER, C. PESCE'NNIUS, was descended
of Philippus, the successor of Gordianus among the from a respectable family of equestrian rank, which
Arabs ; and also an account of Decius, Gallus, had attained to provincial distinction at Aquinum.
Valerianus, and the son of Gallienus, up to the The name of his father was Annius Fuscus, his
time of the expedition of Valerianus against Sapor, mother was Lampridia. After having long served
the king of the Persians, A. D. 259. (Voss. de as a centurion he passed with credit through the
Hist. Gruec. p. 288, ed. Westermann. )
various stages of military advancement under Mar-
6. A writer on music, mentioned in a fragment cus Aurelius ard his son, was raised by the latter to
annexed to Censorinns, and attributed to him by the consulship, and appointed to the command of
many. (Voss. de Hist. Gracc. p. 475. ) [C. P. M. ] the Syrian armies, chiefly, it is said, through the
NICO STRATUS (NIKÓOtpatos), a physician, interest of Narcissus, the favourite athlete of the
mentioned by Antiphanes the younger (ap. Athen.
xiii. 51, p. 506; Harpocr. 8. v. 'Artikupa) as • That is, if in the passage in question for
having left to a courtezan, at his death, a large | Τάνιτρον του Ασκληπιάδου we read τα Νέγρο)
quantity of hellebore, whence she acquired the Toû 'AOKATIT vadelou.
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prince. After intelligence had reached the East of ment of the provinces, and he might undoubtedly
the death of Commodus, of the shameful elevation have proved most useful to the state could he have
and of the miserable end of Julianus, Pescennius remained satisfied with filling a subordinate sta-
was saluted er peror by his troops, A. D. 193. Nor tion, but he was led astray by the counsels of
were his prospects altogether hopeless. Severus, Severus Aurelianus whose daughters were betrothed
his former friend, was, indeed, in possession of the to his sons, and who persuaded him to persevere,
capital, but it was well known that he was re against his own better judgment, in the attempt to
garded with evil eyes by the senate, who, as well mount the throne. The invectives of the emperor
as the populace, had even before the death of Severus, who represented him as a hypocrite and a
Julianus openly declared their partiality to Niger. debauchee, must be attributed to jealous rancour ;
His chances of success, moreover, were perhaps and, although he was but moderately versed in litera-
rendered more complicated, but by no means dimi-ture, harsh in his address, and under the dominion of
nished, by the pretensions of Clodius Albinus, who, strong and vehement passions, he is well entitled
although he had for the time being, acknowledged to the comprehensive praise of having been a good
the claims of Severus, and professed himself satis- soldier, a good officer, and good general. (Dion Cass.
fied with the second title of Caesar, was holding lxxii. 8, Ixxiii. 13, 14, Ixxiv. 6–8; Spartian.
the armies of Gaul in hand, ready to take advan-Julian. 5, Sever. 6-9, Pescenn. Niyer ; Aur. Vict.
tage of any opportunity which might offer. But de Cues. 20, Epit. 20 ; Eutrop. viii. 10. ) (W. R. )
Pescennius was 10 match for the vigorous activity
of his rival. While still loitering listlessly in fan-
cied security at Antioch, he received information
that Severus was already marching to the East, at
the head of a powerful force. Then, at length, he
occupied Thrace and Northern Greece, threw
strong garrisons into Byzantium and the most im-
portant cities of Asia, fortified the defiles of Taurus,
and, at the same time, attempted, but without suc-
AT
cess, to open negotiations by offering to divide the
empire. The first battle was fought by his chief
legate Aemilianus, who having encountered the
general of Severus in the vicinity of Cyzicus was NIGER, TRE'BIUS, one of the companions of
routed and slain. This engagement was followed L. Lucullus, proconsul in Hispania Baetica, R. Co
by a second near Nicaea in Bithynia, in which 150, wrote a work on natural history which is re-
Pescennius commanded in person with no better ferred to by Pliny (H. N. ix. 25. s. 41, 30. s. 48,
fortune ; the third encounter, which took place on xxxii. 2. s. 6).
the gulph of Issus near the Cilician gates, decided NIGIDIUS FI'GULUS. (FIGULUS. ]
the war, for having been defeated after a bloody NIGRINIANUS, a Roman Caesar or Augustus,
contest in which no less than 20,000 of his men known to us from medals only, and these struck
are said to have fallen, and Antioch having soon after his death. They are very rare, but exist in
after been captured, the pretender fled towards the all the three metals, bearing upon the obverse a
Euphrates, was overtaken, brought back, and put head, either bare or radiated, with the legend Divo
to death A. D. 194.
His wife, his sons, together NIGRINIANO ; on the reverse, a funeral pyre, or an
with his whole family, shared the same fate, and eagle, or an altar, or an eagle upon an altar, with
his property was confiscated. His head, fixed the word CONSECRATIO. It has been conjectured
upon a pole, was despatched to Byzantium, which that he was the son of Alexander, who assumed the
still held out against the conqueror, and was ex- purple in Africa, A. D. 311, and was soon after
hibited to the besieged as a significant warning of destroyed by Maxentius. There is not, however,
what they might expect should they continue to a jot of evidence in favour of this hypothesis.
offer an obstinate resistance.
(Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 520. )
(W. R. ]
Dion Cassius speaks of Niger as a person not very
conspicuous for good or for evil, deserving neither
much censure nor much praise. His most marked
characteristics, both physical and moral, were all
of a military cast, and he is said to have set up Ca-
millus, Annibal, and Marius as his models. He
was tall of stature, muscular in limb, but graceful
withal, a proficient in athletic exercises, and gifted
with a voice so loud and clear, that he could be
heard distinctly at the distance of a mile. His
cognomen of Niger is said to have been derived
from the extreme swarthiness of his throat, although
otherwise fair skinned and of ruddy complexion. NIGRI'NUS, AVI'DIUS, was proconsnl in a
Spartianus has preserved many anecdotes of the province in the reign of Domitian, but his name
firmness with which he enforced the most rigid does not occur in the Fasti. (Plin. Ep. x. 71. s.
discipline upon all under his command, but he | 74, 72. s. 75. )
preserved his popularity by the strict impartiality NIGRI'NUS, C. PETRO'NIUS PO'NTIUS,
which he displayed, and by the bright example of consul A. D. 37, the year in which the emperor
frugality, temperance, and hardy endurance of toil Tiberius died. (Dion Cass. lvüi. 27; Suet. Tib.
which he exhibited in his own person. We are told 73 ; Tac. Ann. vi. 45. )
that he proposed to M. Aurelius and to Commodus NILEUS (Nelaeus), a Greek physician, whose
many salutary regulations for the better govern- | name is sometimes written Nilus (Neixos) and
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most correct form of the word, as it is the most mentioned edition, were published by Possinus,
He must have lived some time in or Paris, 1039, 4to. ; but the best edition of his
before the third century B. C. , as he is mentioned iniscellaneous works is that of Suaresius, entitled
by Heracleides of Tarentum (ap. Galen. Comment. S. Nili Tractatus scu Opuscula, Rome, 1673, fol. The
in Hippocr. “ De Artic. ” iv. 40, vol. xviii. pt. i. letters of Nilus, which are very numerous, being
p. 736). He is quoted by Celsus (v. 18. $ 9, more than three hundred, were first published by
vi. 6. SS 8, 11, viii. 20. pp. 86, 120, 121, 185), Possinus, Paris, 1657, 4to. ; but a better edition is
Caelius Aurelianus (De Morb. Acut. ii. 29, p. 142), the one published at Rome, 1668, fol. , with the
Galen (De Compos. Medicum. scc. Loc. ii. 2, iv. 8, Latin version of Leo Allatius. Of the various
viii. 5, ix. 2, vol. xii. pp. 568, 569, 765, 766, works of Nilus the most important are, 1. Κεφά-
806, vol. xiii. pp. 181, 182, 239, De Antid. ii. daca i napawvégers, containing advice on the way
10, vol. xiv. p. 165), Alexander Trallianus (viii. in which a Christian should live ; in fact, a sum-
12. p. 268), Oribasius (Synops. iii. p. 50 ; and mary of practical divinity. 2. Letlers, for the
Coll. Medic. in Mai's Class. Auct. e Codic. Vatic. most part on the same subject as the preceding work.
Edit, vol. iv. pp. 123, 130, 131, 153, 155), Aëtius 3. ’EFIKTÍTOU enxeiplôcov, in which the Manual of
(i. 4, 10, ï. 3, 21, 24, 108, ii. 4, 2, iii. 1, 16, 17, Epictetus, as given by Arrian, is accommodated to
pp. 166, 307, 308, 353, 365, 454, 455), and the use of Christians. This manual, which appears
Paulus Aegineta (iji. 22, 37, 46, 49, vii. 16, 18, in the edition of Suaresius mentioned above, is also
pp. 432, 458, 470, 473, 672, 684), and was cele published in the fifth volume of Schweighäuser's
brated for the invention of a machine for the re- Epictetus, Lips. 1800. (Phot. I. c. ; Niceph. II. E.
duction of dislocations, called ithivolov, of which a xiv. 54 ; Allatius, Fabric. II. cc. ; Cave, llist. Lit.
description is given by Oribasius (De Machinam. vol. i. p. 428 ; Tillemont, Mém. de l'Hist. Eccl.
c. 8. p. 167. )
(W. A. G. ) vol. xiv. p. 189. )
NILO'XENUS (NELótevos). ]. A native of 2. CABASILAS. (CABASILAS. )
Naucratis in Egypt, mentioned by Plutarch ( Sept. 3. Of Rhodes, of which he was metropolitan,
Sap. Conv. 2) as a sage who lived in the time of about A. D. 1360. He is stated, however, to have
Solon.
been a native of Chios. He was the author of
2. A Macedonian, son of Satyrus. He was a several works, of which the most important was a
friend of Alexander the Great, and was left by him short history of the nine oecumenical councils,
with an army to superintend the affairs of the pro- published by H. Justellus as an appendix to the
vince, when he founded Alexandria on Mount Cau- Nomocanon of Photius, Paris, 1615, 4to. ; by Voel-
casus. (Arr. iii. 28. )
(C. P. M. ] lius and Justellus in Bibl. Juris Canonici, 1661,
NILUS (Neidos), the god of the river Nile in fol. vol. ii. p. 1155 ; and by Harduinus, Concilia,
Egypt, is said to have been a son of Oceanus and vol. v. p. 1479. Nilus also wrote some grammati-
Thetys, and father of Memphis and Chione. (Hes. cal works, of which an account is given by F.
Theog. 338 ; A pollod. ii. 1. $ 4; Serv.
