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prior to that of Salvius Julianus, by the fact that
Julianus wrote notes in six books Ad (apud, in)
Minitium or Ad Minicium, from which books there
are some citations in the Digest (6. tit. 1. s. 61).
In one passage, the tenth book of the work, Ad
Minitium is cited (Dig. 19. tit. 1. s. 11. ~ 15), but
as Zimmern suggests, x. is a blunder for v.
Pomponius (Dig. 19. tit. 1. s. 6. ~ 4) quotes
Minicius as quoting Sabinus. [G. L.] COIN OF PINARIUS NATTA.
NATTA or NACCA, "a fuller" (Festus, s. v.; NAUBO'LIDES (NaveoA1X3s), a patronymic
Appul. Met. ix. p. 636, ed. Ouden.), was the name of from Naubolus, and accordingly applied to his sons,
a family of the Pinaria gens. Natta, or Nata, Iphitus (Hom. II. ii. 5] 8) and Clytoneus (Apollon.
which we find upon coins, seems to be the correct Rhod. i. 135). It also occurs as the name of a
orthography. TheNattae are veryrarely mentioned, Phaeacian. (Hom. Carm. viii. 1] 16.) [L. S.]
but appear to have been a very ancient family. NAU'BOLUS (Nav'oAos). 1. A son of Lernus
Cicero speaks in general of the Pinarii Nattae as and the father of Clytoneus, was king of Tanagra
nobiles, and mentions an ancient bronze statue of in Boeotia. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 135, &c., 208
a Natta, which was struck by lightning in the Orph. Argon. 144; Lycoph. 1068.)
consulship of Torquatus and Cotta, B. C. 65. (Cic. 2. A son of Ornytus, and father of Iphitus, was
de Div. i. 12, ii. 20, 21.) king of Phocis. (Hom. I1. ii. 518; Apollod. i.
1. L. PINARIus NATTA, magister equitum to 9. ~ 16.) [L. S.]
the dictator L. Manlius Capitolinus, B. C. 363, and NAUCERUS, a statuary, who made a panting
praetor, B. C. 349. Livy does not give his cogno- wrestler. (Plin. xxxiv. 8. s. 19.) [P. S.]
men, but it is preserved in the Fasti Capitolini. NAUCLEIDES (NavtcXel1Fs). 1. A Plataean,
(Liv. vii. 3, 25.) the leader of the faction who invited and opened
2. L. (PINARIUS) NATTA was the brother of the gates for the Thebans who seized upon Plathe wife of the celebrated tribune P. Clodius, and taeae B. C. 431. (Thuc. ii. 2; Dem. c. Neaeeram,
obtained a seat in the college of pontiffs through 25, p. 1378.)
the influence of his brother-in-law, who passed 2. One of the two Spartan ephors, sent, accordover his own brother in favour of Natta. Through ing to the Spartan custom, with the king Pauhis connection with Clodius, he was one of the sanias into Attica in B. C. 403, at the time when
enemies of Cicero, who mentions him on one or two the Athenians were hard pressed by Lysander.
occasions. (Cic. pro Dom. 45, 52, ad Att. iv. 8, b. He entered cordially into the plans of Pausanias
~ 3.) The gentile name of Natta is only men- for defeating the designs of Lysander. (Xen. IHeltioned in a passage of Servius (ad Virg. Aen. viii. len. ii. 4. ~ 36.) He is perhaps the same with the
269), who calls him Pinarius Natta, but the Naucleidas, son of Polybiades, whom Lysander
genuineness of this passage has been called in ridiculed and assailed on account of his obesity and
question by Wolf (ad Cic. pro Dome. 1. c.). Now luxurious mode of life in an assembly of the people,
as we read of only one wife of Clodius, namely, to such an extent that he was near being exiled
Fulvia, it has been usually supposed that the forthwith. The people, however, contented themabove L. Natta was the brother of this Fulvia, selves with threatening him with banishment if he
and that his full name was therefore L. Fulvius did not reform his mode of life. (Athen. xii.
Natta; but Drumann has brought forward (Ges- p. 550 d.) [C. P. M.]
chzichte'Roms, vol. ii. p. 370) reasons which ren- NAU'CRATES (NavupacTrs), historical. 1. A
der it very probable, that Clodius had, previous native of Carystus,who, with Androcles of Sphettus,
to his marriage with Fulvia, married another wife of lent a sum of money to Artemon and Apollodorus,
the name of Pinaria, and that L. Natta was the bro- for the recovery of which a suit was instituted by
ther of the latter and not the brother of Fulvia. The Androcles against Lacritus, the brother of Artename of Natta is otherwise unknown in the Fulvia mon. This matter is the subject of the speech of
gens. The mother of Natta and of his sister Pinaria Demosthenes rIpos r7' AaKcpi'Tov 7rapypaCYpavr.
married a second time L. Murena, consul B. C. 62, 2. A Lycian demagogue, who incited the Lyand we consequently find Natta described as a cians to offer some fruitless resistance to M. Brutus.
step-son of Murena. (Cic. pro Muren. 35, pro (Plut. Brut. p. 998, b.) [C. P. M.]
Dois. 52.) NAU'CRATES (NavcpdaT7s), literary. 1.
3. PINARIUS NATTA, a client of Sejanus, and Surnamed Erythraeus, and termed by Suidas (s.
one of the two accusers of Cremutius Cordus, A. D. v. Isocrates)'Epvupatos NavlcpariTrs, was a disci25. (Tac. Ann. iv. 34.) ple of Isocrates. He is mentioned among the
4. NATTA, a person satirised by Horace (Sat. i. orators who competed (B. C. 352) for the prize
6. 124) for his dirty meanness, was probably a offered by Artemisia for the best funeral oration
member of the noble Pinarian family, and therefore delivered over Mausolus. (Suidas, s. v. Theodectes,
attacked by Horace for such conduct. et 1. c.; Gell. x. 68.) He wrote on the subject of,
The coin annexed refers to some Pinarius Natta, rhetoric. From the incidental notice taken of his
but who he was is quite uncertain. The obverse writings by Cicero (De Orat. iii. 44), we may
represents a winged head of Pallas, the reverse infer that he shared in and defended the technical
Victory in a chariot drawn by two horses. refinement of his master. In one of his treatises
we learn from Quintilian (iii. 6) that he applied
* Hence we frequently find Natta or Nacca the word rc'da'is, as the appropriate technical term
given as a cognomen in the Fulvia gens, as is stated for the status or qzaestio, the consideration of a
in the article FULVIA GENS; but if Drumann's case in its most general aspect, and that some
supposition is correct, and we believe it is, this is a regarded him as the inventor of the term so apmistake. plied,
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