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1156 NEOPTOLEMUS. NEPOS.
the son of Arrhabaeus and brother of Amyntas, ii. p. 152, ed. Amstel. 1745; Sueton. Col. c. 57,)
though that author represents him as having If Josephus (Ant. xix. 1) be correct, the play perfought on the Persian side. (Arr. Anab. i. 20. formed was on the subject of Cinyras and Myrrha.
~ 15; and see Schmieder, ad loc.) But Neoptolemus (Diod.. c.), by order of the
4. One of the generals of Mithridates, and king, introduced some new lines (quoted by
brother of Archelaus. He had already distin- Diod. I. c.), probably composed by Neoptolemus
guished himself previous to the breaking out of the himself. A saying of his on the murder of the
wars with Rome, by an expedition against the king is recorded by Stobaeus (98. 70, vol. iii. p.
barbarians north of the Euxine, whom he defeated 295, ed. Gaisford). He took an active part in
in several battles, and appears to have pushed his the transactions between the Athenians and
conquests as far as the mouth of the Tyras Philip. He had been intimate with and espoused
(Dniester), where he erected a fortress which con- the side of the latter, for whose court he ultitinued to bear his name. In the course of these mately left Athens. (Dem. pp. 58, 344, 442,. ed
wars he is said to have defeated the barbarians in Reiske.) [W. M. G.]
a combat of cavalry, on the ice at the entrance of NE'PHELE (NE(P4el). 1. The wife of the
the Palus Maeotis, on the very same spot where Thessalian king Athamas, by whom she became
he the following summer gained a naval victory. the mother of Phrixus and Helle. (Apollod. i. 9,
(Strab. ii. 1, p. 73, vii. 3, pp. 306, 307.) In B. c. ~ 1; comp. ATHAMAS.)
88 he was united with his brother Archelaus in the 2. The wife of Ixion, by whom she became the
command of the great army with which Mithri- mother of the Centaurs. [CENTAURI.] [L. S.].datesinvaded Bithynia,anddefeated NicomedesIII. NEPOS, a friend of the younger Pliny, who
at the river Amnius. This success was quickly fol- addresses four letters to him (ii. 3, iii. 16, iv. 26,
lowed up by Neoptolemus and Menophanes, who vi. 19), but whether he is the same as either the
defeated the Roman general M. Aquillius in a Calvisius Nepos or the Licinius Nepos mentioned
second decisive action, and compelled him to fly below, is uncertain.
for refuge to Pergamus. (App. Mithr. 17-19.) NEPOS, CALVI'SIUS, a friend of the younger
After this he appears to have accompanied Arche- Pliny, was a candidate for the office of military
laus to Greece, where he was defeated by Sulla's tribune, and was warmly recommended by Pliny to
lieutenant, Munatius, near Chalcis, with heavy Sossius. (Plin. Ep. iv. 4.)
loss, B. c. 86. (Ibid. 34.) After this we find him NEPOS, CORNE'LIUS, was the contemporary
commanding the fleet of Mithridates, which was and friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Catullus. He
-stationed at Tenedos (B. C. 85), where he was was probably a native of Verona, or of some. neighattacked and defeated by Lucullus, the quaestor of bouring village, and died during the reign of
Sulla. (Plut. ucull. 3.) From this time we hbear Augustus. No other particulars, with regard to
no more of him. [E. H. B.] his personal history, have been transmitted to us.
NEOPTO'LEMUS (Neo7rrXs;os), literary. 1. (Catull. i. 3; comp. Auson. praef. Eopiqramm.;
Of Paros, the most eminent literary person of this Cic. ad Att. xvi. 5; Plin. H. N. v. 1, ix. 39,
name. The following works are ascribed to him. x. 23; Plin. Ep. iv. 28; Hieron. Chron. Euseb.
1. IEp1'Emr'ypaLUatarfv, probably a collection ofepi- Olymp. clxxxv.) He is known to have written
grams. (Athen. x. p. 454, f.; Jacobs, Antlol. vol. the following pieces, all of which are now lost.
vi. p. xxxvi.) 2. lepl raoo.awcv, to the third book 1. Clironica. An Epitome of Universal History,
of which Athenaeus refers (xi. p. 476, f.). It is it would appear, in three books. For the name
probably to this work that Achilles Tatius refers, and some idea of the contents we are indebted to
Cv'raes cIpdpyaer ipcova's. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. Ausonius (Epist. xvi.), A. Gellius (xvii. 21. ~ 3,
vi. p. 193.) 3. A Commentary on Homer. (Id. 8, 24), and Solinus (i. ~ 27, xliv. ~ 1), while
vol. i. p. 517.) 4. A Commentary on Theocritus, Catullus, when dedicating his poems to Cornelius
quoted in the Scholia on i. 52. (Id. vol. iii. pp. Nepos, indicates, though obscurely, the object and
781, 798.) 5. A Treatise on Poetry, to which extent of the production in question,
Horace is said to have been indebted in his Ars Jam tum cum as
Jam turn cum ausus es, unus Italorum,
Poetica. According to a conjecture of Clinton F. H33) Omne aevum tribus explicare chartis,
2. According to a conjecture of Clinton (F. H. Doctis, Jupiter! etlaboriosis.
vol. i. p. 349), who has collected (I. c.) all the ancient notices on the subject, there was a Milesian (See also Minucius Felix, c. 22.)
Neoptolemus, to whom was falsely ascribed the 2. Exemplorum Libri, of which Charisius (p.1 19,
epic Natc7raKtia. Pausanias thinks it the work of ed. Putsch.) quotes the second book, and A. GelCarcinus. [CARCINUS.] The Scholiast on Apollo- lius (vii, 18. ~ 11) the fifth. This was probably
nius. Rhodius, however, expressly attributes it to a collection of remarkable sayings and doings, of
Neoptolemus. Perhaps, however, Neoptolemus the the same description as the compilation subseParian may have commented on this work also. quently formed by Valerius Maximus.
Heyne latterly agreed with Pausanias that the 3. De Viis Illustribus. Gellius (xi. 8) tells an
NaunratCta was named from Naupactus, the birth- anecdote of Cato, adding " Scriptum est hoc in
place of its author Carcinus. (Apollon. Rhod. v. libro Cornelii Nepotis DeIllustribus Viris." (See
299; Schol. ad. Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 12, and OS- also Serv. ad Virg. Aen. 372; Diomedes, p. 405,
servat, in loc. by Heyne, ed. Gotting. 1803.) ed. Putsch.; and Charisius, pp. 113,114, 195, ed.
3. A poet from whose work, Isepl adaTres'egcv, Putsch., who refers to books ii. xv. and xvi.) It
two lines are quoted by Stobaeus (120. 5, vol. iii. is not impossible that it may be the same work as
-p. 459, ed. Gaisford). the preceding, quoted under a different title.
4. There was also a celebrated Athenian trage- 4. Vita Ciceronis, an error in which is corrected
dian of this name, who performed at the games in by A. Gellius (xv. 28).
which Philip of Macedon was slain, B. C. 336. 5. Epistolae ad Ciceronem, from one of which
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 312; Diod. xvi. vol. Lactantius has preserved an extract (Instit. Div.