Nazianzus, a town of Cappadocia where St. Gregory was born, and hence he is called Nazianzenus.
Nea, or Nova insula, a small island between Lemnos and the Hellespont, which rose out of the sea during an earthquake. Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 87.
Neæra, a nymph, mother of Phaetusa and Lampetia by the Sun. Homer, Odyssey, bk. 12.——A woman mentioned by Virgil’s Eclogues, poem 3.——A mistress of the poet Tibullus.——A favourite of Horace.——A daughter of Pereus, who married Aleus, by whom she had Cepheus, Lycurgus, and Auge, who was ravished by Hercules. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 9.—Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 4.——The wife of Autolycus. Pausanias.——A daughter of Niobe and Amphion.——The wife of Strymon. Apollodorus.
Neæthus, now Neto, a river of Magna Græcia near Crotona. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 15, li. 51.
Nealces, a friend of Turnus in his war against Æneas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 753.
Nealices, a painter, amongst whose capital pieces are mentioned a painting of Venus, a sea-fight between the Persians and Egyptians, and an ass drinking on the shore, with a crocodile preparing to attack it.
Neandros (or ia), a town of Troas. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 30.
Neanthes, an orator and historian of Cyzicum, who flourished 257 years B.C.
Neapŏlis, a city of Campania, anciently called Parthenope, and now known by the name of Naples, rising like an amphitheatre at the back of a beautiful bay 30 miles in circumference. As the capital of that part of Italy, it is now inhabited by upwards of 350,000 souls, who exhibit the opposite marks of extravagant magnificence, and extreme poverty. Augustus called it Neapolis. Suetonius, Augustus, ch. 98.——A town in Africa.——A city of Thrace.——A town of Egypt,——of Palestine,——of Ionia.——Also a part of Syracuse. Livy, bk. 25, ch. 24.—Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 5.
Nearchus, an officer of Alexander in his Indian expedition. He was ordered to sail upon the Indian ocean with Onesicritus, and to examine it. He wrote an account of this voyage and of the king’s life; but his veracity has been called in question by Arrian. After the king’s death he was appointed over Lycia and Pamphylia. Curtius, bk. 9, ch. 10.—Polyænus, bk. 9.—Justin, bk. 13, ch. 4.—Strabo, bk. 2, &c.——A beautiful youth, &c. Horace, bk. 3, ode 20.——An old man mentioned by Cicero, de Senectute.