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

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vengeance on the Greeks by sending false messages NAXUS (Ndcos), a son of Polemo and father
to the wives of the heroes fighting at Troy, and of Leucippus, gave his name to the island of Naxos,
thus to have led them to faithlessness towards their which had before been called Dia. (Diod. v.
husbands or to self-destruction. (Eustath. ad Horn. 51.) [L. S.]
p. 24; Tzetz, 1. c.; Paus. i. 22. ~ 6.) [L. S.] NAZAIRIUS. The ninth piece in the colNAUSI'CAA (Navouclca),the daughter of Alci- lection of the "Panegyrici Veteres" [see DREnous, king of the Phaeacians and Arete, became P.NIUS] bears the title Nazarii Panegyricuzs Conthe friend of Odysseus (Hom. Od. vi. 16, &c.; stantino Augusto. It was delivered at Rome (c. 38)
comnp. ODYSSEUS). Later writers represent her as at the beginning of the fifth year of the Caesars,
the wife of Telemachus, by whom she is said to Crispus and Constantine, which commenced on the
have become the mother of Perseptolis or Ptoli- 1st of March A.D. 321 (cc. 1, 2). It is chiefly
porthus. (Eustath. ad Hornm. p. 1796; Dict. Cret. occupied with the praises of Constantine, the
vi. 6.) [L. S.] father, who is proposed as the bright exemplar of
NAUSI'CRATES (NavcruKpd'qrs), a Greek every virtue to his sons. The circumstance that
comic poet, doubtfully placed by Clinton (F. H. the emperor was not present (c. 3, comp. c. 36),
vol. ii. p. xlv.) among the writers of the middle renders the grossness of the flattery somewhat less
comedy. Meineke (Frag. Corn. Graec. vol. i. odious. With regard to the author we find two
p. 495) infers the same thing, from his tragico- notices in the version of the Eusebian Chronicle by
comic style. Suidas (s. v.) attributes to him two Jerome, the one under A. D. 315, "Nazarius inplays, NavuAXpom and IIEpels. Athenaeus (ix. signis rhetor habetur;" the other under A. D. 337,
p. 399, e.), when giving an extract from the play " Nazarii rhetoris filia in eloquentia patri cocalled Hrepo'is, calls him Naucrates; but this is aequatur," both of which we may fairly conclude
clearly an error; or it may be a shortened form, refer to the author of this oration. Ausonius also
similar to those adduced by Lobeck, in his edition notices incidentally an "illustrious " rhetorician,
of Aglaophamus (pp. 994, 996). From the frag- Nazarius, who may be the same person. (Prof.
ments preserved by Athenaeus, consisting of twelve Burdig. xiv.)
lines from the NavKuAXpoe and three from the The eighth piece in the above collection, styled
rep-irs, we can infer nothing of the plot; but there Incerti Panegyricus Constantino Augusto dictus,
is some humour in his inflated description of the from the resemblance in style as well as from an
mullet and the blue shark in the passages from expression in the ninth (c. 30), is generally believed
the former play. These passages are most in- to be also the work of Nazarius. It was progeniously dovetailed and amended by Meineke nounced at Trdves by a native of Gaul (c. 1), in
(vol. iv. p. 575, &c.). (Fabric. Bibl. Graee. vol. the year A.D. 313, and celebrates in the most
ii. p. 471; Athen. I. c. vii. p. 296, a. p. 325, e. turgid language the victory over Maxentius. (For
p. 330,b.) [W. M. G.] authorities and illustrations see the references at
NAUSI'MEDON. [NAUPLIUS, No. 3.] the end of DREPANIUS, EUMENIUS, MAMERNAUSI'NOUS (Navt'voos), a son of Odysseus TINUS.) [W. R.]
by Calypso, and brother of Nausithous. (Hes. NEAERA (Neatpa). 1. A nymph, who became
Tl/eog. 1017; Eustath. ad Hornm. p. 1796.) [L.S.] by Helios the mother of Lampetia and Phaetusa.
NAUSI'PHANES (Navoupda'vs), a native of (Hom.- Od. xii. 133.)
Teos, attached to the philosophy of Democritus, 2. A daughter of Pereus, and the wife of Aleus,
and, according to Sextus Empiricus, a disciple of by whom she became the mother of Auge, Cepheus,
Pyrrhon. He had a large number of pupils, and and Lycurgus. (Apollod. iii. 9. ~ 1; Paus. viii. 4.
was particularly famous as a rhetorician. Epicurus ~ 3, who calls her the wife of Autolycus.)
was at one time one of his hearers, and as he could 3. One of the daughters of Niobe. (Apollod.
not deny this, though he was anxious to be con- iii. 5. ~ 3.)
sidered a self-taught man, he was obliged to 4. The wife of Strymon, and mother of Evadne.
content himself with abusing him, and maintaining (Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 2.)
that he had learnt nothing from him. (Cic. de Nat. 5. A nymph, who became by Zeus the mother of
Deor. i. 26, 33; Diog. Laert. ix. 69, 102, x. 8, 14; Aegle. (Virg. Eclog. vi. 20; comp. AEGLE,
Sext. Empir. adv. Mat/l. i. 1, p. 215.) [C. P. M.] No. 1.) [L. S.]
NAUSI'THOUS (Navri0oos). 1. A son of NEALCES (NedAcn7s), a painter who flourished
Poseidon and Periboea the daughter of Eurymedon, in the time of Aratus, B. c. 245. Plutarch relates
was the father of Alcinous and Rhexenor, and king that, when Aratus was destroying the pictures of
of the Phaeacians, whom he led from Hypereia in the tyrants, Melanthius's picture of Aristratus was
Thrinacia to the island of Scheria, in order to escape saved by the intercession of Nealces, who painted
from the Cyclopes. (Hornm. Od. vi. 7, &c. vii. 56, over with a black colour the figure of Aristratus,
&c. viii. 564; Apollon. Rhod. iv. 547.) but left the rest of the picture uninjured (Plut.
2. [NAUSINOUS.] [L. S.] Arat. 13). Pliny mentions with high praise his
NAUTES or NAUITIUS. [NAUTIA GENS.] Venus and his naval battle between the Egyptians
NAU'TIA GENS, an ancient patrician gens, a and the Persians (H. N. xxxv. 11. s. 40, ~~ 36, 41).
member of which obtained the consulship as early A curious story is told of another of his pictures by
as B. C. 4B8. It claimed to be descended from Pliny (xxxv. 10. s. 36. ~ 20). His daughter AlexNautius or Nautes, one of the companions of andria was also a painter (Didymus, ap. Clem.
Aeneas, who was said to have brought with him Alex. Strom. iv. p. 381, c.) His colour-grinder Erithe Palladium from Troy, which was placed under gonus also became a distinguished painter. [P. S.]
the care of the Nautii at Rome. (Dionys. vi. 4; NEANTHES (NscidPvOs), of Cyzicum, lived
Virg. Aen. v. 704, with the note of Servius.) Like about B. c. 241, and was a disciple of the Milesian
many of the other ancient gentes, the Nautii dis- Philiscus, who himself had been a disciple of Isoappear from history about the time of the Samnite crates. He was a voluminous writer, principally
wars. All the Nautii bore the'surname of RuTIL US. of history, but very scanty materials have reached