A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

1144 NAUMACHIUS. NAUPLIUS.
As Isocrates wrote models for judicial and poli- In addition to the verses which bear his name,
tical orations, Naucrates furnished models (none of there has been conjecturally attributed to him a
which are extant) of funeral orations, celebrating moral poem, assigned by Gesner to Phocylides,
men of public fame. (Dionys. vol. ii. p. 39, ed. which Brunck thinks inferior to the known proSylburg.) ductions of Naumachius. There are three fragEustathius twice refers to a commentary on ments of this author in hexameters preserved by
Homer by Naucraotes Erytlraeus, who may, per- Stobaeus. 1. Eleven lines of what seems to be an
haps, be regarded as identified with the rhetorician introduction to a poem on the due management of
by the term Sophista which he applies to him. the marriage state, on the part of women; the in(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 484, 517.) But troduction, however, dissuading from marriage, and
the manner in which the commentator is men- recommending celibacy. 2. Fifty-eight lines of
tioned by Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. EpvOpd), what seems to be the poem itself. The instrucsolely in connection with the commentary, renders tions are exceedingly comprehensive, including
it doubtful whether there may not have been two most sensible and prudent directions for the beof the same name. haviour of a good wife to a wise and to a foolish
2. Stobaeus mentions the saying of one Nau- husband, for the regulation of her household, her
crates, whom he designates o aopoJs (vol. i. p. 390, choice of companions, and her dress. He disaped. Gaisford). [W. M. G.] proves of second marriages, and enjoins cheerfulNAUCY'DES (NavK'8ns), an Argive statuary, ness and discretion. 3. Four lines and a portion
the son of Mothon, and the brother and teacher of of a fifth, depreciating gold, precious stones, and
Polycleitus II. of Argos, made a gold and ivory purple clothing. The first and third fragments
statue of Hebe, which stood by the celebrated have more of poetry than the larger piece, but
statue of Hera by Polycleitus I. in the Heraeum the language of all is pure, and the style glowing
near Mycenae; a bronze statue of Hecate at and spirited. It must have been from a seeming
Argos; and several statues of athletes. (Paus. ii. allusion in the first to the superiority of celibacy,
17. ~ 5, 22. ~ 8, vi. 6. ~ 1, 8. ~ 3, 9. ~ 1.) Tatian as introducing to a mystic marriage, where the
mentions his statue of Erinna the poetess. (Adv. virgin becomes queen of women, that the suggestion
Graec. 51, p. 113, Worth.) Pliny, who places him at has been made that Naumachius was a Christian
01. 90, B. C. 420 (H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19), men- writer. If so, however, we could not have failed
tions his Mercury, Discobolus, and a man sacri- to detect in the second extract some allusion to the
ficing a ram (Ibid. ~ 19). Besides his brother injunctions of Scripture on the subject. But there
Polycleitus, Alypus of Sicyon was his disciple. seems to be no reason to doubt that his notions
(Paus. vi. 1. ~ 2; comp, Thiersch, Epoclken, pp. were purified by an acquaintance with the maxims
143, 150, 282, 283, and Sillig, Catal. Artif. of Christianity. (Stobaeus, vol. iii. pp. 22, 68,
s. v.) [P. S.] 234, ed. Gaisford; translated by Hugo Grotius in
NA'VIUS. [NAEVIUS, No. 1.] Stobaeus, iv. p. 164, &c. p. 187, &c., 224, ed.
NA'VIUS, ATTUS, a renowned augur in the Gaisford; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 721,
time of Talquinius Priscus. In his boyhood he 726.) [W. M. G.]
showed his skill in the art before he had received NAUIPLIUS (Na6rAMos). 1. A son of Poany instruction; but after he had been taught by seidon and Amymone, of Argos, a famous navithe Etruscans, he excelled all the augurs of his gator, and father of Proetus and Damastor (Apollon.
time. The nlost extraordinary proof of his know- Rhod. i. 136, &c.; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv.
ledge of augury is related in the legend of Tar- 1091). He is the reputed founder of the town of
quinius Priscus. This king proposed to double the Nauplia, which derived its name from him (Paus.
number of the equestrian centuries, and to name ii. 38. ~ 2, iv. 35. ~ 2; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 54).
the three new ones after himself and two of his He is also said to have discovered the constellation
friends, but was opposed by Navius, because Ro- of the great bear. (Theon, ad Arat. Phaen. 27;
mules had originally arranged the equites under Paus. viii. 48. ~ 5; Strab. viii. p. 368.)
the sanction of the auspices, and consequently no 2. A son of Clytoneus, was one of the Argonauts
alteration could be made in them without the same and a descendant of Nauplius, No. 1, (Apollon.
sanction. The tale then goes on to say that the Rhod. i. 134.)
king thereupon commanded him to divine whether 3. A king of Euboea, and father of Palamedes,
what he was thinking of in his mind could be Oeax and Nausimedon, either by Clymene or Phidone, and that when Navius, after consulting the lyra or Hesione (Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 4). Clymene
heavens, declared that it could, the king held out a was a daughter of Catreus, and she and her sister
whetstone and a razor to cut it with. He imme- Aerope had been given by their father to Nalplius,
diately cut it. A statue of Attus was placed in who was to carry them to some foreign country;
the comitium, on the steps of the senate-house, the but Nauplius married Clymene, and gave Aerope
place where the miracle had been wrought, and to Pleisthenes, who became by her the father of
beside the statue the whetstone was preserved. Agamemnon and Menelaus (Apollod. iii. 2. ~ 2).
There was a current report, according to Dionysius, His son Palamedes had been condemned to death
that Attus fell a victim to the anger of Tarquin. by the Greeks during the siege of Troy, and as
Attus Navius seems to be the best orthography, Nauplius considered his condemnation to be an act
making Attus an old praenomen, though we fre- of injustice, he watched for the return of the Greeks,
quently find the name written Attius. (Liv. i. 36; and as they approached the coast of Euboea, he
Flor. i. 5; Aurel. Vict. de Vir. Ill. 6; Dionys. iii. lighted torches on the most dangerous part of the
70-72; Cic. de Div. i, 17, de Nat. Deor. ii. 3, coast. The sailors thus misguided suffered shipiii. 6, de Rep, ii. 20; Niebuhr, Hist of Rome, vol. wreck, and perished in the waves or by the sword
i. pp. 360, 361.) of Nauplius (Philostr. Her. x, 11; Schol. ad
NAUMA'CHIUS (NauvaoiXos), a Gnomic poet. Eurip. Orest. 422; Tzetz, ad Lycoph. 384; Hygin.
Of the age in which he lived nothing is kniown. Fab. 116). He is further said to hIave wreaked his