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these passages are far enough from proving that NEOCLES, literary. i. An Athenian, the
Nemesius had anticipated the discoveries of Harvey father of Epicurus, was one of the cleruchi (anorand Sylvius; but at the same time they show that peta, as Cicero, de Nat. Deor. i. 26, calls hin)
the ancients had advanced much farther in the path sent to Samos after its conquest in the time of
of science than is commonly supposed. The work Pericles. Not finding his land sufficient for his
is included in several of the collections of Patristic maintenance, he set up a school. (Strab. xiv. p.,
Theology. It appeared for the first time in a 638; Diog. La'rt. x. 1.)
separate form in a Latin translation by George 2. Brother of Epicurus, wrote an account of the
Valla, Lugd. 8vo. 1538. The first Greek edition sect of the Epicureans, which is lost. He was the
was published at Antwerp, 8vo. 1565, edited by author of the maxim XdOe jftaoas, upon which
Nicasius Ellebodius, with a Latin translation; Plutarch wrote a small essay. (Plut. Non Stav.
the next was by Dr. (afterwards bishop) Fell, Vivi Sec. Epic. pp. 1089, 1128, &c.; Suidas, s. v.
Oxon. 8vo. 1671; the last and best is by C. NeoecAXi; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 608.)
F. Matthaei, Halae, 8vo. 1802. It was trans- 3. A native of Crotona, from whom Athenaeus.
lated into Italian by Domin. Pizzimenti, 8vo. (ii. p. 57, f.) quotes, to the effect that the egg from
(s. 1. et a.); into English by George Wither, which Helena was produced fell from the moon,
London, 12mo. 1636; into German by Oster- the women there being oviparous. [C. P. M.]
hammer, Saltzburg, 8vo. 1819; and into French by NEOCLES, painter. [XENON.]
J. B. Thibault, Paris, 8vo. 1844. Further inform- NEOLA!US (NEoSXaos), brother of Molon and
ation respecting Nemesius and his opinions, theolo- Alexander, who revolted against Antiochus the
gical, philosophical, and physiological, may be Great. [ANTIOCHUS, Vol.. p. 196.] He com-.
found in Bayle's Diet. Hist. et Crit., and Chauffe- manded the left wing of the rebel army in the
pit's Suppleom.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec.; Brucker, battle in which Molon was defeated. When all
Iist. Crit. Philosoph.; Haller, Biblioth. Anat.; was lost he escaped from the battle, and went to
Sprengel, I-ist. de la Mid.; Freind's Hist. of Persis, where Alexander was. Having killed his
Physic. See also the Preface and Notes to Fell's mother, and the children of Molon, he slew himedition (reprinted by Matthaei), and to Thibault's self upon their corpses, after persuading Alexander
translation. to follow his example. (Polyb. v. 53. ~ 11, 54.
2. A friend of St. Gregory Nazianzen, a man of ~ 5.) [C. P. M.]
learning and cultivated taste, who was first an NEON (NwOY). 1. A Corinthian officer, who
advocate, and afterwards praefect of Cappadocia. accompanied Timoleon in his expedition to Sicily,
St. Gregory appears to have been on very intimate and was appointed by him to command the citadel
terms with him, and to have written to him of Syracuse, when that fortress was placed in his
numerous letters, of which only four are still extant hands by the younger Dionysius. In this post
(Epist. 198-201, vol. ii. p. 163, &c. ed. Paris), Neon not only held out against the combined
written about the year 386. He also addressed a efforts of Hicetas and the Carthaginian general
poem to him (about the same time), in which he Mago, but took advantage of their absence on an:
tries to persuade him to embrace the Christian expedition against Catana, to make himself master
faith (Carm. vii. vol. ii. p. 1070), but the result of the important quarter of Acradina. (Plut.
of his exhortation is not known. He has been Timol. 18.)
supposed to be the author of the work IIEp!i $iGEws 2. A Messenian, son of Philiades, and brother of
Avepc4Irov, but probably without sufficient reason; Thrasybulus, who is accused by Demosthenes of
as, though it is quite possible that a heathen having betrayed his country to Philip king of Ma-:
magistrate might afterwards become a Christian cedon (Dem. de Cor. p. 324, ed. Reiske; Harpobishop, it is hardly probable that no notice of so cration, s.v. Ne`v). An elaborate vindication of his
eminent a conversion should have been preserved. conduct, together with that of others of his con-:
In fact, there seems to be no reason for supposing temporaries who had adopted the same line of
the two persons to be one and the same, except policy, is found in Polybius (xvii. 14).
that they probably lived about the same time. 3. An officer who commanded under Demetrius'
3. Four letters of St. Isidorus, of Pelusium, Poliorcetes in the great sea-fight off Salamis in
written about the beginning of the fifth century Cyprus, B. C. 306. (Diocd. xx. 52.)
after Christ, are addressed to a person named 4. A Boeotian, who was one of the leaders of
Nemesius, in one of which he is called'ApXW'o, the Macedonian party in his native country, during'
Praetor (i. 47, ed. Paris, 1638), but it is not the reign of Antigonus Doson. An accident put
quite certain that the same individual is meant in it in his power to confer a great personal obligation
each instance (ii. 1 35, iv. 39, v. 36). upon that monarch: for Antigonus having touched
4. " Nemesii, legum periti, mentio apud Aeneam with his fleet on the coast of Boeotia, the ships
Gazaeum, Epist. xx." (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. viii. were all left aground by a sudden change of tide:
p. 448, ed. Harles.) But the name in the passage Neon, who was hipparch at the time, came up with
in question is not Nee'thrLos, but NEME(,4L'o. the Boeotian cavalry, but instead of taking advan-:
5. An Alexandrian presbyter who subscribed tage of the situation of Antigonus, he allowed him
to the deposition of Arius, A. D. 321. (Fabric. to depart in safety. For this act he incurred much'
1. c.) [W. A. G.] censure from his countrymen, but obtained a high
NEOCLES (Neotchis), historical. 1. The place in the favour of Antigonus and his successor
father of Themistocles, was an Athenian of distin- Philip. (Polyb. xx. 5.)
guished rank, connected with the priestly house of 5. A Theban, probably grandson of the prethe Lycomedae (Plut. Tesem. i. p. 11 1; Herod. vii. ceding, took a prominent part in the politics of
173). Boeotia during the disputes between the Romans
2. A son of Themistocles and Archippe, who and Perseus. He was one of the principal authors
was killed while yet a boy by the bite of a horse. of the alliance concluded by the Boeotianis with the
(Pltt. ThIem. p. 128, b.) [C. P. M. Macedonian king, on which account he was driyen
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