Nemetes, a nation of Germany, now forming the inhabitants of Spire, which was afterwards called Noviomagus. Tacitus, Germania, ch. 28.
Nemoralia, festivals observed in the woods of Aricia, in honour of Diana, who presided over the country and the forests, on which account that part of Italy was sometimes denominated Nemorensis ager. Ovid, de Ars Amatoria, bk. 1, li. 259.
Nemossus (or um), the capital of the Arverni in Gaul, now Clermont. Lucan, bk. 1, li. 419.—Strabo, bk. 4.
Neobūle, a daughter of Lycambes, betrothed to the poet Archilochus. See: [Lycambes]. Horace, epode 6, li. 13; bk. 1, ltr. 3, li. 79.—Ovid, Ibis, li. 54.——A beautiful woman, to whom Horace addressed bk. 3, ode 12.
Neocæsaria, a town of Pontus.
Neochabis, a king of Egypt.
Neŏcles, an Athenian philosopher, father, or according to Cicero, brother to the philosopher Epicurus. Cicero, bk. 1, de Natura Deorum, ch. 21.—Diogenes Laërtius.——The father of Themistocles. Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 2, &c.—Cornelius Nepos, Themistocles.
Neogĕnes, a man who made himself absolute, &c. Diodorus, bk. 15.
Neomoris, one of the Nereides. Apollodorus, bk. 1.
Neon, a town of Phocis.——There was also another of the same name in the same country, on the top of Parnassus. It was afterwards called Tithorea. Plutarch, Sulla.—Pausanias, Phocis.—Herodotus, bk. 8, ch. 32.——One of the commanders of the 10,000 Greeks who assisted Cyrus against Artaxerxes.