The
lay in their blood without any one burying them, Romans themselves were uncertain as to whether
for Zeus had changed the people into stones ; but the group was the work of Scopas or Praxiteles.
lay in their blood without any one burying them, Romans themselves were uncertain as to whether
for Zeus had changed the people into stones ; but the group was the work of Scopas or Praxiteles.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
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. ad Aen. iv. Passow, De Nilo, grammatico adhuc ignoto, ejusque
250. ) Pindar (Pyth, iv. 90) calls him a son of grammatica aliisque grammaticis Scriptis, Vratisl.
Cronos.
[L. S. ) 1831–32, 4to.
NILUS or NEILUS (Neinos), the name of 4. SCHOLASTICUS, of whom we know nothing,
several Byzantine writers. A full account of them except that he is the author of an epigram in the
is given by Leo Allatius, Diatribe de Nilis et Greek Anthology (vol. iii. p. 235, ed. Jacobs ;
eorum Scriptis, in the edition of the letters of Brunck, Anal. iii. p. 14).
Nilus (see below, No. 1), Rome, 1688, and by NILUS, physician. (NILEUS).
Hariess (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 3, &c. ), NI'NNIA GENS, plebeian, and of very little
to which writers we must refer for further par- note. No persons of this name are mentioned at
ticulars and authorities. It is only the most Rome till towards the end of the republic, when
important of them, and the chief facts connected we read of L. Ninnius Quadratus, a warm friend
with them that can be mentioned here.
of Cicero's (QUADRATUS). But as early as the
). Aseta Et Monachus (and Saint), lived second Punic war there was a noble house of this
in the fifth century of the Christian aera. Saxius name at Capua, and the Ninnii Celeres are men-
places him about the year a. D. 420. He was tioned among the noble and wealthy families with
descended from a noble family in Constantinople, whom Hannibal resided during his stay in that
and was eventually raised to the dignity of eparch, city. (Liv. xxiii. 8. )
or governor of his native city; but being pene- NI'NNIUS CRASSUS, is mentioned as one of
trated, we are told, with a deep feeling of the the translators of the Iliad into Latin verse (Pris-
reality of divine things, he renounced his rank cian, ix. p. 866, ed. Putschius), but the name is
and dignities, and retired with his son Theodulus perhaps corrupt. (Wernsdorf, Poët. Latin. Mi-
to a monastery on Mount Sinai, while his wife nores, vol. iv. p. 569. )
and daughter took refuge in a religious retreat in NINUS (Nivos), the eponymous founder of the
Egypt His son is said to have perished in an city of Ninus or Nineveh, must be regarded as a
attack made upon the convent by some barbarians; mythical and not an historical personage. His
but Nilus himself escaped, and appears to have exploits are so much mixed up with those of
died about A. D. 450 or 451.
Semiramis, his wife, whose name was much more
Nilus was the author of many theological works, celebrated in antiquity, that we refer the account
several of wbich have been printed, though they of Ninus to the article Semiramis. [SEMIRAMIS. )
have not yet been collected into one edition. There is also another Ninus, who is represented
Photius gives extracts from some of his works. by some authorities as the last king of Nineveh,
(Bibl. Cod. 276. ) Some of the works of Nilus and the successor of Sardanapalus, who is usually
were first published in Latin by P. F. Zinus, described as the last king. See SARDANAPA-
Venet. 1557, 8vo. Next some other works of LUS.
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NIOBE.
NISUS.
NINYAS (Nivúas), the son of Ninus and Eymnastic exercises in a plain near Thebes, and
Semiramnis, is spoken of under SEMIRAMIS. the daughters during the funeral of their brothers.
NI'OBE (N1667). 1. A daughter of Phoro- Others, again, transfer the scene to Lydia (Eustath.
neus, and by Zeus the mother of Argus and ad Ilom. p. 1367), or make Niobe, after the death
Pelasgus. (Apollod. ii. 1. $1; Paus. ii. 22. $ 6; of her children, go from Thebes to Lydia, to her
Plat. Tim. 22. b. ) In other traditions she is called father Tantalus on mount Sipylus, where Zeus, at
the mother of Phoroneus and wife of Inachus. her own request, metamorphosed her into a stone,
2. A daughter of Tantalus by the Pleiad Targete which during the summer always shed tears. (Or.
or the Hyad Dione (Ov. Met
. vi. 174; Hygin. Met. vi. 303 ; Apollod. I. c. ; Paus. viii. 2. $ 3;
Fub. 9), or, according to others, a daughter of Soph. Antiy. 823, Electr. 147. ) In the time of
Pelops and the wife of Zethus or Alalcomencus Pausanias (i. 21. $ 5) people still fancied they
(Eustath. ad llom. p. 1367), while Parthenius could see the petrified figure of Niobe on mount
relates quite a different story (Erot. 33), for he sipylus. The tonıb of the children of Niobe,
makes her a daughter of Assaon and the wife of however, was shown at Thebes. (Paus. ix. 16. in
Philoitus, and relates that she entered into a dis- fin. , 17. § 1; but comp. Schol. ad Eurip. Phuen.
pute with Leto about the beauty of their respective 159. ) The story of Niobe and her children was
children. In consequence of this Philottus was frequently taken as a subject by ancient artists
torn to pieces during the chase, and Assaon fell in (Paus. i. 21. & 5, v. 11. § 2); but none of the an-
love with his own daughter ; but she rejected him, cient representations is more celebrated than the
and he in revenge burnt all her children, in conse- group of Niobe and her children which filled the
quence of which Niobe threw herself down from a pediment of the temple of Apollo Sosianus at
rock (comp. Schol. ad Eurip. Phoen. 159). But Rome, and was found at Rome in the year 1583.
according to the common story, which represents This group is now at Florence, and consists of the
her as a daughter of Tantalus, she was the sister of mother, who holds her youngest daughter on her
Pelops, and married to Amphion, king of Thebes, knees, and thirteen statues of her sons and
by whom she became the mother of six sons and daughters, independent of a figure usually called
six daughters. Being proud of the number of her the paedagogus of the children. It is, however,
children, she deemed herself superior to Leto, who not improbable that several of the statues which
had given birth only to two children. Apollo and now compose the group, originally did not belong
Artemis, indignant at such presumption, slew all to it. Some of the figures in it belong to the
the children of Niobe. For nine days their bodies most masterly productions of ancient art.
The
lay in their blood without any one burying them, Romans themselves were uncertain as to whether
for Zeus had changed the people into stones ; but the group was the work of Scopas or Praxiteles.
on the tenth day the gods themselves buried them. (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 4 ; comp. Welcker, Zeitschrift
Niobe herself, who had gone to mount Sipylus, für die alte Kunst, p. 589, &c. ) [L. S. ]
was metamorphosed into stone, and even thus con- NIPHATES (Nipárns), one of the Persian ge-
tinued to feel the misfortune with which the gods nerals in the battle of the Granicus. (Arrian, i.
had visited her. (Hom. 11. xxiv. 603-617; 12. )
(C. P. M. )
Apollod. iii. 5. $ 6; Ov. Met. vi. 155, &c. ; Paus. NIREUS (Nipeús). 1. A son of Charopus and
viii. 2. in fin. ) Later writers, and especially the Aglaia, was, next to Achilles, the handsomest
dramatic poets have greatly modified and enlarged among the Greeks at Troy, but unwarlike. He
the simple story related by Homer. The number came from the island of Syme (between Rhodes and
and names of the children of Niobe vary very much Cnidus), and commanded only three ships and a
in the different accounts, for while Homer states small number of men. (Hom. 11. i. 671 ; Hygin.
that their number was twelve, Hesiod and others Fub. 270. ) According to Diodorus (v. 53), he
mentioned twenty, Alcman only six, Sappho also ruled over a part of Cnidus, and he is said to
eighteen, Hellanicus six, Euripides fourteen, He have been slain by Eurypylus or Aeneias. (Dict.
rodotus four, and Apollodorus fourteen. (Apollod. Cret. iv. 17; Dar. Phryg. 21; Hygin. Fub. 113. )
1. c. ; Ov. Met. vi. 182; Aelian, V. H. xii. 36; His beauty became proverbial. (Lucian, Dial.
Gellius, xx. 6; Schol. ad Eurip. Phoen. 159 ; Mort. 9. )
Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1367 ; Hygin. Fab. 11; 2. A son, or favourite of Heracles, with whom
Tzetz. ad Lyc. 520. ) According to Homer all the he fought against the lion of mount Helicon.
children of Niobe fell by the arrows of Apollo (Ptolem. Hephaest. 2. ).
(L. S. ]
and Artemis ; but later writers state that one of NISUS (Nicus). 1. A son of Pandion (or,
her sons, Amphion or Amyclas, and one of her according to others, of Dežon or Ares) and Pylia,
daughters, Meliboea, were saved, but that Meli- was a brother of Aegeus, Pallas, and Lycus, and
boea, having turned pale with terror at the sight of husband of Abrote, by whom he became the father
her dying brothers and sisters, was afterwards of Scvlla. He was king of Megara ; and when
called Chloris, and this Chloris is then confounded Minos, on his expedition against Athens, took
with the daughter of Amphion of Orchomenos, Megara, Nisus died, because his daughter Scylla,
who was married to Neleus. (Apollod. I. c. ; Hom. who had fallen in love with Minos, had pulled out
Od, xi. 282; Paus. ii. 21. in fin. , v. 16. & 3. ) The the purple or golden hair which grew on the top of
time and place at which the children of Niobe her father's head, and on which his life depended.
were destroyed are likewise stated differently. (Apollod. ii. 15. SS 5, 6, 8; Schol. ad Eurip.
According to Homer, they perished in their Hippol
. 1090. ) Minos, who was borrified at the
mother's house ; and, according to Apollodorus, conduct of the unnatural daughter, ordered Scylla
the sons were killed by Apollo during the chase to be fastened to the poop of his ship, and after-
on mount Cithaeron (Hygin. Fab. 9, says on mount wards drowned her in the Saronic gulf. (Apollod.
Sipylus), and the daughters by Artemis at Thebes, l. c. ) According to others, Minos left Megara in
not far from the royal palace. According to Ovid, disgust, but Scylla leaped into the sea, and swam
the sons were slain while they were engaged in after his ship; but her father, who had been
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changed into an eagle, perceived her, and shot both of whom class her with Semiramis (Dion Cass.
down upon her, whereupon she was metamorphosed | lxii. 6 ; Julian. Orut. pp. 126, 127). Julius Afri-
into either a fish or a bird called Ciris. (Ov. Met. canus, and Eusebius (apud Syncell. pp. 58, 59),
viii. 6, &c. ; Hygin. Fub. 198 ; Virg. Georg. i. who borrow their account from Manetho, describe
405, Eclog. vi. 74. ) The tradition current at her as the most high-minded and most beautiful
Megara itself knew nothing of this expedition of woman of her age, with a fair complexion, adding
Minos, and called the daughter of Nisus Iphinoe, that she built the third pyramid. By this we are
and represented her as married to Megareus. It to understand, as Bunsen has shown, that she
is further added, that in the dispute between finished the third pyramid, which had been com-
Sciron and Nisus Aeacus assigned the government menced by Mycerinus ; and the same fact is
to Nisus (Paus. i. 39. $ 5), and that Nisa, the intimated by the curious tale of Herodotus (ii.
original name of Megara, and Nisaca, afterward 13+), which states that the erection of the pyramid
the port town of Megara, derived their names was attributed by many to the Greek courtezan,
from Nisus, and that the promontory of Scyllaeum Rhodopis, who must, in all probability, be regarded
was named after his daughter. (Paus. i. 39. § 4, as the same person as Nitocris. [Rioporis. ]
ji. 34. 8 7; Strab. viii. p. 373. ) The tomb of Bunsen makes Nitocris the last sovereign of the
Nisus was shown at Athens, behind the Lyceum. sixth dynasty, and states that she reigned for six
(Paus. i. 19. & 5. )
years in place of her murdered husband (not her
2. A son of líyrtacus, a companion of Aeneias brother, as Herodotus states), whose name was
and friend of Euryalus, whose death he avenged Menthuòphis. The latter is supposed to be the
by slaying Volscens, and then himself, in a dying son or grandson of the Moeris of the Greeks and
state, threw himself upon the body of his friend and Romans. The tale related by Herodotus of Nito-
expired. (Virg. Acn. ix. 176, &c. 444. )
cris constructing a subterraneous chamber for the
3. A noble of Dulichium, and father of Amphi- punishment of the murderers of her brother is sup-
nomus, who was one of the suitors of Penelope. posed by Bunsen, with much probability, to have
(Hom. Od. xvi. 395, xviii. 126, 412. ) [L. S. ] reference to her erection of the third pyramid,
NITOCRIS (Nitwipis). 1. A queen of Baby- though the waters of the Nile could not have been
Jon, mentioned by Herodotus, who ascribes to her let into it, as the water of the river does not rise
many important works at Babylon and its vicinity. high enough for the purpose. (Bunsen, Aegyptens
According to his account she changed the course of Stelle in der Weltgeschichte, vol. ii. pp. 236—242. )
the river above Babylon, built up with bricks the NIXI DII, a general term, which seems to have
sides of the river at the city, and also threw a been applied by the Romans to those divinities
bridge across the river. He also relates that she who were beliered to assist women at the time
was buried above one of the city gates, and that when they were giving birth to a child. (Quos
her tomb was opened by Dareius. (Herod. i.
(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. ad Aen. iv. Passow, De Nilo, grammatico adhuc ignoto, ejusque
250. ) Pindar (Pyth, iv. 90) calls him a son of grammatica aliisque grammaticis Scriptis, Vratisl.
Cronos.
[L. S. ) 1831–32, 4to.
NILUS or NEILUS (Neinos), the name of 4. SCHOLASTICUS, of whom we know nothing,
several Byzantine writers. A full account of them except that he is the author of an epigram in the
is given by Leo Allatius, Diatribe de Nilis et Greek Anthology (vol. iii. p. 235, ed. Jacobs ;
eorum Scriptis, in the edition of the letters of Brunck, Anal. iii. p. 14).
Nilus (see below, No. 1), Rome, 1688, and by NILUS, physician. (NILEUS).
Hariess (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 3, &c. ), NI'NNIA GENS, plebeian, and of very little
to which writers we must refer for further par- note. No persons of this name are mentioned at
ticulars and authorities. It is only the most Rome till towards the end of the republic, when
important of them, and the chief facts connected we read of L. Ninnius Quadratus, a warm friend
with them that can be mentioned here.
of Cicero's (QUADRATUS). But as early as the
). Aseta Et Monachus (and Saint), lived second Punic war there was a noble house of this
in the fifth century of the Christian aera. Saxius name at Capua, and the Ninnii Celeres are men-
places him about the year a. D. 420. He was tioned among the noble and wealthy families with
descended from a noble family in Constantinople, whom Hannibal resided during his stay in that
and was eventually raised to the dignity of eparch, city. (Liv. xxiii. 8. )
or governor of his native city; but being pene- NI'NNIUS CRASSUS, is mentioned as one of
trated, we are told, with a deep feeling of the the translators of the Iliad into Latin verse (Pris-
reality of divine things, he renounced his rank cian, ix. p. 866, ed. Putschius), but the name is
and dignities, and retired with his son Theodulus perhaps corrupt. (Wernsdorf, Poët. Latin. Mi-
to a monastery on Mount Sinai, while his wife nores, vol. iv. p. 569. )
and daughter took refuge in a religious retreat in NINUS (Nivos), the eponymous founder of the
Egypt His son is said to have perished in an city of Ninus or Nineveh, must be regarded as a
attack made upon the convent by some barbarians; mythical and not an historical personage. His
but Nilus himself escaped, and appears to have exploits are so much mixed up with those of
died about A. D. 450 or 451.
Semiramis, his wife, whose name was much more
Nilus was the author of many theological works, celebrated in antiquity, that we refer the account
several of wbich have been printed, though they of Ninus to the article Semiramis. [SEMIRAMIS. )
have not yet been collected into one edition. There is also another Ninus, who is represented
Photius gives extracts from some of his works. by some authorities as the last king of Nineveh,
(Bibl. Cod. 276. ) Some of the works of Nilus and the successor of Sardanapalus, who is usually
were first published in Latin by P. F. Zinus, described as the last king. See SARDANAPA-
Venet. 1557, 8vo. Next some other works of LUS.
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NIOBE.
NISUS.
NINYAS (Nivúas), the son of Ninus and Eymnastic exercises in a plain near Thebes, and
Semiramnis, is spoken of under SEMIRAMIS. the daughters during the funeral of their brothers.
NI'OBE (N1667). 1. A daughter of Phoro- Others, again, transfer the scene to Lydia (Eustath.
neus, and by Zeus the mother of Argus and ad Ilom. p. 1367), or make Niobe, after the death
Pelasgus. (Apollod. ii. 1. $1; Paus. ii. 22. $ 6; of her children, go from Thebes to Lydia, to her
Plat. Tim. 22. b. ) In other traditions she is called father Tantalus on mount Sipylus, where Zeus, at
the mother of Phoroneus and wife of Inachus. her own request, metamorphosed her into a stone,
2. A daughter of Tantalus by the Pleiad Targete which during the summer always shed tears. (Or.
or the Hyad Dione (Ov. Met
. vi. 174; Hygin. Met. vi. 303 ; Apollod. I. c. ; Paus. viii. 2. $ 3;
Fub. 9), or, according to others, a daughter of Soph. Antiy. 823, Electr. 147. ) In the time of
Pelops and the wife of Zethus or Alalcomencus Pausanias (i. 21. $ 5) people still fancied they
(Eustath. ad llom. p. 1367), while Parthenius could see the petrified figure of Niobe on mount
relates quite a different story (Erot. 33), for he sipylus. The tonıb of the children of Niobe,
makes her a daughter of Assaon and the wife of however, was shown at Thebes. (Paus. ix. 16. in
Philoitus, and relates that she entered into a dis- fin. , 17. § 1; but comp. Schol. ad Eurip. Phuen.
pute with Leto about the beauty of their respective 159. ) The story of Niobe and her children was
children. In consequence of this Philottus was frequently taken as a subject by ancient artists
torn to pieces during the chase, and Assaon fell in (Paus. i. 21. & 5, v. 11. § 2); but none of the an-
love with his own daughter ; but she rejected him, cient representations is more celebrated than the
and he in revenge burnt all her children, in conse- group of Niobe and her children which filled the
quence of which Niobe threw herself down from a pediment of the temple of Apollo Sosianus at
rock (comp. Schol. ad Eurip. Phoen. 159). But Rome, and was found at Rome in the year 1583.
according to the common story, which represents This group is now at Florence, and consists of the
her as a daughter of Tantalus, she was the sister of mother, who holds her youngest daughter on her
Pelops, and married to Amphion, king of Thebes, knees, and thirteen statues of her sons and
by whom she became the mother of six sons and daughters, independent of a figure usually called
six daughters. Being proud of the number of her the paedagogus of the children. It is, however,
children, she deemed herself superior to Leto, who not improbable that several of the statues which
had given birth only to two children. Apollo and now compose the group, originally did not belong
Artemis, indignant at such presumption, slew all to it. Some of the figures in it belong to the
the children of Niobe. For nine days their bodies most masterly productions of ancient art.
The
lay in their blood without any one burying them, Romans themselves were uncertain as to whether
for Zeus had changed the people into stones ; but the group was the work of Scopas or Praxiteles.
on the tenth day the gods themselves buried them. (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 4 ; comp. Welcker, Zeitschrift
Niobe herself, who had gone to mount Sipylus, für die alte Kunst, p. 589, &c. ) [L. S. ]
was metamorphosed into stone, and even thus con- NIPHATES (Nipárns), one of the Persian ge-
tinued to feel the misfortune with which the gods nerals in the battle of the Granicus. (Arrian, i.
had visited her. (Hom. 11. xxiv. 603-617; 12. )
(C. P. M. )
Apollod. iii. 5. $ 6; Ov. Met. vi. 155, &c. ; Paus. NIREUS (Nipeús). 1. A son of Charopus and
viii. 2. in fin. ) Later writers, and especially the Aglaia, was, next to Achilles, the handsomest
dramatic poets have greatly modified and enlarged among the Greeks at Troy, but unwarlike. He
the simple story related by Homer. The number came from the island of Syme (between Rhodes and
and names of the children of Niobe vary very much Cnidus), and commanded only three ships and a
in the different accounts, for while Homer states small number of men. (Hom. 11. i. 671 ; Hygin.
that their number was twelve, Hesiod and others Fub. 270. ) According to Diodorus (v. 53), he
mentioned twenty, Alcman only six, Sappho also ruled over a part of Cnidus, and he is said to
eighteen, Hellanicus six, Euripides fourteen, He have been slain by Eurypylus or Aeneias. (Dict.
rodotus four, and Apollodorus fourteen. (Apollod. Cret. iv. 17; Dar. Phryg. 21; Hygin. Fub. 113. )
1. c. ; Ov. Met. vi. 182; Aelian, V. H. xii. 36; His beauty became proverbial. (Lucian, Dial.
Gellius, xx. 6; Schol. ad Eurip. Phoen. 159 ; Mort. 9. )
Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1367 ; Hygin. Fab. 11; 2. A son, or favourite of Heracles, with whom
Tzetz. ad Lyc. 520. ) According to Homer all the he fought against the lion of mount Helicon.
children of Niobe fell by the arrows of Apollo (Ptolem. Hephaest. 2. ).
(L. S. ]
and Artemis ; but later writers state that one of NISUS (Nicus). 1. A son of Pandion (or,
her sons, Amphion or Amyclas, and one of her according to others, of Dežon or Ares) and Pylia,
daughters, Meliboea, were saved, but that Meli- was a brother of Aegeus, Pallas, and Lycus, and
boea, having turned pale with terror at the sight of husband of Abrote, by whom he became the father
her dying brothers and sisters, was afterwards of Scvlla. He was king of Megara ; and when
called Chloris, and this Chloris is then confounded Minos, on his expedition against Athens, took
with the daughter of Amphion of Orchomenos, Megara, Nisus died, because his daughter Scylla,
who was married to Neleus. (Apollod. I. c. ; Hom. who had fallen in love with Minos, had pulled out
Od, xi. 282; Paus. ii. 21. in fin. , v. 16. & 3. ) The the purple or golden hair which grew on the top of
time and place at which the children of Niobe her father's head, and on which his life depended.
were destroyed are likewise stated differently. (Apollod. ii. 15. SS 5, 6, 8; Schol. ad Eurip.
According to Homer, they perished in their Hippol
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mother's house ; and, according to Apollodorus, conduct of the unnatural daughter, ordered Scylla
the sons were killed by Apollo during the chase to be fastened to the poop of his ship, and after-
on mount Cithaeron (Hygin. Fab. 9, says on mount wards drowned her in the Saronic gulf. (Apollod.
Sipylus), and the daughters by Artemis at Thebes, l. c. ) According to others, Minos left Megara in
not far from the royal palace. According to Ovid, disgust, but Scylla leaped into the sea, and swam
the sons were slain while they were engaged in after his ship; but her father, who had been
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changed into an eagle, perceived her, and shot both of whom class her with Semiramis (Dion Cass.
down upon her, whereupon she was metamorphosed | lxii. 6 ; Julian. Orut. pp. 126, 127). Julius Afri-
into either a fish or a bird called Ciris. (Ov. Met. canus, and Eusebius (apud Syncell. pp. 58, 59),
viii. 6, &c. ; Hygin. Fub. 198 ; Virg. Georg. i. who borrow their account from Manetho, describe
405, Eclog. vi. 74. ) The tradition current at her as the most high-minded and most beautiful
Megara itself knew nothing of this expedition of woman of her age, with a fair complexion, adding
Minos, and called the daughter of Nisus Iphinoe, that she built the third pyramid. By this we are
and represented her as married to Megareus. It to understand, as Bunsen has shown, that she
is further added, that in the dispute between finished the third pyramid, which had been com-
Sciron and Nisus Aeacus assigned the government menced by Mycerinus ; and the same fact is
to Nisus (Paus. i. 39. $ 5), and that Nisa, the intimated by the curious tale of Herodotus (ii.
original name of Megara, and Nisaca, afterward 13+), which states that the erection of the pyramid
the port town of Megara, derived their names was attributed by many to the Greek courtezan,
from Nisus, and that the promontory of Scyllaeum Rhodopis, who must, in all probability, be regarded
was named after his daughter. (Paus. i. 39. § 4, as the same person as Nitocris. [Rioporis. ]
ji. 34. 8 7; Strab. viii. p. 373. ) The tomb of Bunsen makes Nitocris the last sovereign of the
Nisus was shown at Athens, behind the Lyceum. sixth dynasty, and states that she reigned for six
(Paus. i. 19. & 5. )
years in place of her murdered husband (not her
2. A son of líyrtacus, a companion of Aeneias brother, as Herodotus states), whose name was
and friend of Euryalus, whose death he avenged Menthuòphis. The latter is supposed to be the
by slaying Volscens, and then himself, in a dying son or grandson of the Moeris of the Greeks and
state, threw himself upon the body of his friend and Romans. The tale related by Herodotus of Nito-
expired. (Virg. Acn. ix. 176, &c. 444. )
cris constructing a subterraneous chamber for the
3. A noble of Dulichium, and father of Amphi- punishment of the murderers of her brother is sup-
nomus, who was one of the suitors of Penelope. posed by Bunsen, with much probability, to have
(Hom. Od. xvi. 395, xviii. 126, 412. ) [L. S. ] reference to her erection of the third pyramid,
NITOCRIS (Nitwipis). 1. A queen of Baby- though the waters of the Nile could not have been
Jon, mentioned by Herodotus, who ascribes to her let into it, as the water of the river does not rise
many important works at Babylon and its vicinity. high enough for the purpose. (Bunsen, Aegyptens
According to his account she changed the course of Stelle in der Weltgeschichte, vol. ii. pp. 236—242. )
the river above Babylon, built up with bricks the NIXI DII, a general term, which seems to have
sides of the river at the city, and also threw a been applied by the Romans to those divinities
bridge across the river. He also relates that she who were beliered to assist women at the time
was buried above one of the city gates, and that when they were giving birth to a child. (Quos
her tomb was opened by Dareius. (Herod. i.
