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occasioned
great 175, ed.
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N.
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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. 185– putabant praesidere parientium nixibus, Fest. p.
189.
) Who this Nitocris was has occasioned great 175, ed. Müller ; 0v. Met. ix. 294 ; Nonius, p.
dispute among modern writers, and is as uncertain 57. ) Before the cella of Minerva, on the Capitol,
as almost all other points connected with the early there were three statues, which were designated as
history of the East. Since Herodotus (i. 185) | Dii Nixi.
(L. S. ]
speaks of her as queen, shortly after the capture of NOBI’LIOR, the name of a family of the ple-
Ninus or Nineveh by the Medes, which is placed beian Fulvia gens. This family was originally called
in B. c. 606, it is supposed by most modern writers Paetinus (PAETINUS), and the name of Nobilior
that she was the wife of Nebuchadnezzar, who seems to have been first assumed by the consul of
began to reign in B. C. 604, and the mother or B. C. 255 (see below, No. 1), to indicate that he
grandmother of Labynetus or Belshazzar, the last was more noble than any others of this name. His
king of Babylon. See Clinton, F. H. vol. i. p. 278, descendants dropped the name of Paetinus, and
note f, who brings forward some other arguments retained only that of Nobilior.
in support of this opinion.
1. Ser. FULVIUS M. F. M. N. PAETINUS No-
2. A queen of wypt. Herodotus relates that she BILIOR, was consul B. c. 255, with M. Aemilius
was a native Egyptian, and the only female of the 330 Paullus about the middle of the first Punic war.
Egyptian monarchs whose names were read to the In the beginning of this year Regulus had been de-
historian by the priests from a papyrus manuscript. feated in Africa by the Carthaginians, and the re-
He further tells us that she was elected to the sove- mains of his army were besieged in Clypea. As
reignty in place of her brother, whom the Egyptians soon as the senate heard of this disaster they sent
had killed, and that she devised the following both consuls with a fleet of at least three hundred
scheme in order to take revenge upon the mur- ships, to bring off the survivors. After reducing
derers of her brother. She built a very long Cossura the Romans met the Carthaginian fleet near
chamber under ground, and when it was finished the Hermaean promontory, and gained a most
invited to a banquet in it those of the Egyptians brilliant victory over it. The loss of the Car-
who had had a principal share in the murder. thaginians was very great, though the numbers are
While they were engaged in the banquet she let differently stated, and are evidently corrupt in
in upon them the waters of the Nile by means of Polybius. After the victory the consuls landed at
a large concealed pipe and drowned them all, and Clypea, but did not remain long in Africa on
then, in order to escape punishment, threw herself account of the complete want of provisions. As it
into a chamber full of ashes. (Herod. ii. 100. ) was near the summer solstice, in the month of July,
This Nitocris appears to have been one of the when the Ronians set out homewards, the pilots
most celebrated personages in Egyptian legends. cautioned them to avoid the southern coast of Sicily,
Even in the times of the Roman emperors we find as violent gales from the south and south-west
her name mentioned as one of the old heroines of make that coast very dangerous at that time of the
the East, as we see from the way in which she is year. The consuls, however, disregarded their
spoken of by Dion Cassius, and the emperor Julian, warning; and off Camarina they were surprised by
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a fearful storm, which destroyed almost the whole Fulvius, in his censorship, erected a temple to
fleet, and strewed the coast from Camarina to Pa- | Hercules and the Muses in the Circus Flaminius,
chynus with wrecks and corpses. Both consuls, as a proof that the state ought to cultivate the
however, escaped, and celebrated a triumph as pro- liberal arts, and adorned it with the paintings and
consuls in the following year (Polyb. i. 36, 37 ; statues which he had brought from Greece upon his
Eutrop. ii. 22 ; Oros. iv. 9 ; Diod. xxiii. 14; conquest of Aetolin. He also set up Fasti in this
Zonar. viii. 14). Respecting the date of this cam- temple, which are referred to by Macrobius. (Cic.
paign, see Niebuhr, Ilist. of Rome, vol. iii. p. 591, pro Arch. loc. ; Plin. H. N. xxxv. 10. s. 36. § 4 ;
and Arnold, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. p. 593. n. 67. Eumenius, Orat. pro Scholis Instaurund. 7. $ 3;
2. M. Fulvius M. F. SER. N. Nobilior, grand- Macrob. Saturn. i. 12. ) He left behind him two
son of the preceding, was curule aedile B. c. 195, sons, both of whom obtained the consulship. (Nos.
and praetor B. c. 193, when he obtained Further 3 and 4. ) His brother, by his mother's side, was
Spain as his province, with the title of proconsul. C. Valerius Laevinus, who accompanied him in his
He remained in this country two years, and fought Actolian campaign (Polyb. xxii. 12), and who was
with great success against the nations that still consul in B. c. 176.
resisted the Roman supremacy. He gained a 3. M. Fulvius M. f. M. N. NOBILIOR, son of
victory over the united forces of the Vaccaei, Tec-No. 2, was tribune of the plebs B. c. 171 (Liv. xlii.
tones, and Celtiberi, near the town of 'Toletum / 32), curule aedile B. c. 160, the year in which the
(Toledo), and took their king, Hilermus, prisoner. Andria of Terence was performed (Tit. Andr.
He then obtained possession of the town of Tole. Terent. ), and consul B. c. 159, with Cn. Cornelius
tum, which is the first time that this place is men-Dolabella. Of the events of his consulship we
tioned in history. On his return to Rome in B. C. have no records ; but as the triumphal fasti assign
191 he was granted the honour of an ovation. him a triumph in the following year over the
(Liv. xxxiii. 42, xxxiv. 54, 55, xxxv. 7, 22, Eleates, a Ligurian people, he must have carried on
xxxvi. 2), 39. ) In B. C. 189 he was consul with war in Liguria.
M. Fulvius Nobilior, and received the conduct of 4. Q. Fulvius M. f. M. N. NOBiLion, son of
the war against the Aetolians. He captured the No. 2, was consul B. C. 153 with T. Annius
strong town of Ambracia, and then compelled the Luscus. Livy mentions (xxxix. 44) a Q. Fulvius
Aetolians to sue for peace, which was granted Nobilior who was appointed in B. c. 184 one of the
them on favourable terms. Shortly afterwards he triumviri for founding the colonies of Potentia and
obliged the island of Cephallenia, which had been Pisaurum ; and as Cicero says (Brut. 20) that Q.
excluded from the terms of the peace, to submit to Nobilior, the son of the conqueror of the Aetolians,
the dominion of Rome. He remained in his pro- was a triumvir coloniae deducendae, though he does
vince for the next year as proconsul ; and on his not mention the name of the colony, it would seem
return to Rome, in B. c. 187, celebrated a most that the Q. Nobilior mentioned by Livy is the
splendid triumph. In the following year he ex- same as the one referred to by Cicero. But there
hibited for ten successive days the games which he are two objections to this natural conclusion: in
had vowed in the Aetolian war, and which were the first place, it is exceedingly unlikely, and quite
the most magnificent that had yet been seen at contrary to Roman practice, that such important
Rome. There were renationes of lions and pan- duties as were involved in the foundation of a
thers; and contests of athletae were now for the colony should have been entrusted to a person so
first time exhibited in the city. The conquest of young as Q. Nobilior must have been at that time,
Aetolia by this consul is also commemorated in the since he did not obtain the consulship for thirty-
inscription of a statue discovered at Tusculum, one years afterwards ; and in the second place, the
from which place the Fulvii originally came. [Ful- Q. Fulvius M. f. who, says Livy (xl. 42), was
via Gens. ] (Polyb. xxii. 8–15; Liv. xxxvii. 47, elected triumvir epulo in B. C. 180, while still a boy
48, 50, xxxviii. 3–11, 28, 30, 35, xxxix.
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. 185– putabant praesidere parientium nixibus, Fest. p.
189.
) Who this Nitocris was has occasioned great 175, ed. Müller ; 0v. Met. ix. 294 ; Nonius, p.
dispute among modern writers, and is as uncertain 57. ) Before the cella of Minerva, on the Capitol,
as almost all other points connected with the early there were three statues, which were designated as
history of the East. Since Herodotus (i. 185) | Dii Nixi.
(L. S. ]
speaks of her as queen, shortly after the capture of NOBI’LIOR, the name of a family of the ple-
Ninus or Nineveh by the Medes, which is placed beian Fulvia gens. This family was originally called
in B. c. 606, it is supposed by most modern writers Paetinus (PAETINUS), and the name of Nobilior
that she was the wife of Nebuchadnezzar, who seems to have been first assumed by the consul of
began to reign in B. C. 604, and the mother or B. C. 255 (see below, No. 1), to indicate that he
grandmother of Labynetus or Belshazzar, the last was more noble than any others of this name. His
king of Babylon. See Clinton, F. H. vol. i. p. 278, descendants dropped the name of Paetinus, and
note f, who brings forward some other arguments retained only that of Nobilior.
in support of this opinion.
1. Ser. FULVIUS M. F. M. N. PAETINUS No-
2. A queen of wypt. Herodotus relates that she BILIOR, was consul B. c. 255, with M. Aemilius
was a native Egyptian, and the only female of the 330 Paullus about the middle of the first Punic war.
Egyptian monarchs whose names were read to the In the beginning of this year Regulus had been de-
historian by the priests from a papyrus manuscript. feated in Africa by the Carthaginians, and the re-
He further tells us that she was elected to the sove- mains of his army were besieged in Clypea. As
reignty in place of her brother, whom the Egyptians soon as the senate heard of this disaster they sent
had killed, and that she devised the following both consuls with a fleet of at least three hundred
scheme in order to take revenge upon the mur- ships, to bring off the survivors. After reducing
derers of her brother. She built a very long Cossura the Romans met the Carthaginian fleet near
chamber under ground, and when it was finished the Hermaean promontory, and gained a most
invited to a banquet in it those of the Egyptians brilliant victory over it. The loss of the Car-
who had had a principal share in the murder. thaginians was very great, though the numbers are
While they were engaged in the banquet she let differently stated, and are evidently corrupt in
in upon them the waters of the Nile by means of Polybius. After the victory the consuls landed at
a large concealed pipe and drowned them all, and Clypea, but did not remain long in Africa on
then, in order to escape punishment, threw herself account of the complete want of provisions. As it
into a chamber full of ashes. (Herod. ii. 100. ) was near the summer solstice, in the month of July,
This Nitocris appears to have been one of the when the Ronians set out homewards, the pilots
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a fearful storm, which destroyed almost the whole Fulvius, in his censorship, erected a temple to
fleet, and strewed the coast from Camarina to Pa- | Hercules and the Muses in the Circus Flaminius,
chynus with wrecks and corpses. Both consuls, as a proof that the state ought to cultivate the
however, escaped, and celebrated a triumph as pro- liberal arts, and adorned it with the paintings and
consuls in the following year (Polyb. i. 36, 37 ; statues which he had brought from Greece upon his
Eutrop. ii. 22 ; Oros. iv. 9 ; Diod. xxiii. 14; conquest of Aetolin. He also set up Fasti in this
Zonar. viii. 14). Respecting the date of this cam- temple, which are referred to by Macrobius. (Cic.
paign, see Niebuhr, Ilist. of Rome, vol. iii. p. 591, pro Arch. loc. ; Plin. H. N. xxxv. 10. s. 36. § 4 ;
and Arnold, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. p. 593. n. 67. Eumenius, Orat. pro Scholis Instaurund. 7. $ 3;
2. M. Fulvius M. F. SER. N. Nobilior, grand- Macrob. Saturn. i. 12. ) He left behind him two
son of the preceding, was curule aedile B. c. 195, sons, both of whom obtained the consulship. (Nos.
and praetor B. c. 193, when he obtained Further 3 and 4. ) His brother, by his mother's side, was
Spain as his province, with the title of proconsul. C. Valerius Laevinus, who accompanied him in his
He remained in this country two years, and fought Actolian campaign (Polyb. xxii. 12), and who was
with great success against the nations that still consul in B. c. 176.
resisted the Roman supremacy. He gained a 3. M. Fulvius M. f. M. N. NOBILIOR, son of
victory over the united forces of the Vaccaei, Tec-No. 2, was tribune of the plebs B. c. 171 (Liv. xlii.
tones, and Celtiberi, near the town of 'Toletum / 32), curule aedile B. c. 160, the year in which the
(Toledo), and took their king, Hilermus, prisoner. Andria of Terence was performed (Tit. Andr.
He then obtained possession of the town of Tole. Terent. ), and consul B. c. 159, with Cn. Cornelius
tum, which is the first time that this place is men-Dolabella. Of the events of his consulship we
tioned in history. On his return to Rome in B. C. have no records ; but as the triumphal fasti assign
191 he was granted the honour of an ovation. him a triumph in the following year over the
(Liv. xxxiii. 42, xxxiv. 54, 55, xxxv. 7, 22, Eleates, a Ligurian people, he must have carried on
xxxvi. 2), 39. ) In B. C. 189 he was consul with war in Liguria.
M. Fulvius Nobilior, and received the conduct of 4. Q. Fulvius M. f. M. N. NOBiLion, son of
the war against the Aetolians. He captured the No. 2, was consul B. C. 153 with T. Annius
strong town of Ambracia, and then compelled the Luscus. Livy mentions (xxxix. 44) a Q. Fulvius
Aetolians to sue for peace, which was granted Nobilior who was appointed in B. c. 184 one of the
them on favourable terms. Shortly afterwards he triumviri for founding the colonies of Potentia and
obliged the island of Cephallenia, which had been Pisaurum ; and as Cicero says (Brut. 20) that Q.
excluded from the terms of the peace, to submit to Nobilior, the son of the conqueror of the Aetolians,
the dominion of Rome. He remained in his pro- was a triumvir coloniae deducendae, though he does
vince for the next year as proconsul ; and on his not mention the name of the colony, it would seem
return to Rome, in B. c. 187, celebrated a most that the Q. Nobilior mentioned by Livy is the
splendid triumph. In the following year he ex- same as the one referred to by Cicero. But there
hibited for ten successive days the games which he are two objections to this natural conclusion: in
had vowed in the Aetolian war, and which were the first place, it is exceedingly unlikely, and quite
the most magnificent that had yet been seen at contrary to Roman practice, that such important
Rome. There were renationes of lions and pan- duties as were involved in the foundation of a
thers; and contests of athletae were now for the colony should have been entrusted to a person so
first time exhibited in the city. The conquest of young as Q. Nobilior must have been at that time,
Aetolia by this consul is also commemorated in the since he did not obtain the consulship for thirty-
inscription of a statue discovered at Tusculum, one years afterwards ; and in the second place, the
from which place the Fulvii originally came. [Ful- Q. Fulvius M. f. who, says Livy (xl. 42), was
via Gens. ] (Polyb. xxii. 8–15; Liv. xxxvii. 47, elected triumvir epulo in B. C. 180, while still a boy
48, 50, xxxviii. 3–11, 28, 30, 35, xxxix.
