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NICANDER. NICANOR. 117 5
3, -rA/;d-at, a work in at least three books; served in the British Museum. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr;.
quoted by Athenaeus (p. 288) and other writers. vol. iv. p. 345, &c. ed. Harles; Haller, Biblio#t.
4.'ETepoIov'Loeva, a poem in hexameter verse, in Botan. and Biblioth. Medic. Pract.; Sprengel, Hist.
five books, mentioned by Suidas, and quoted by de la Mid.; Choulant, Handb. der Biucherksund
Athenaeus (pp. 82, 305), Antoninus Liberalis fedr die Aeltere Medicin.)
(Ifetanmorph. cc. 12, 35), and other writers. It 2. A Peripatetic philosopher of Alexandria,
was perhaps in reference to this work that Didy- who wrote a work Flep! Tc-v'Ap~aro're'Aovs Mamus applied to Nicander the epithet " fabulosus" G0reiv. (Suid. s. v. A~oXpiwv.)
(Macrob. Saturn. v. 22.). 5. EopwoTria, or rIepl 3. A native of Chalcedon, who wrote a work
Evpc rIs, in at least five books, quoted by relating to Prusias, king of Bithynia, entitled
Athenaeus (p. 296), Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. rIpovLov Uv u.rro/ueaTa, of which the fourth book
"AOes), and others. 6.'Hiajtu1oi, mentioned is quoted by Athenaeus (xi. p. 496).
by the scholiast on the Tleriaca. 7. OGai'cda, 4.'The son of Euthydemus, introduced by Pluin at least three books, mentioned by the scholiast tarch in his dialogue, De Solert.Aninzal. ~ 8. (vol. v.
on the Theriaca, and probably alluded to by Plu- p. 444, ed. Tauchn.), and in his Symnposiaca, is,
tarch (de Herod. kl/align. c. 33, vol. v. p. 2] 0, ed. perhaps, the person to whom he addressed his
Tauchn.). 8.'Idea'eWV ZUyayWY7?j mentioned by treatise, De recta: Rat. Aud. vol. i. p. 86. He
Suidas. 9. KoXovoeacaKd, of which work the same lived in the first century after Christ.
passage is quoted both by Athenaeus (p. 569) and 5. A foolish sophist, mentioned by PhiloHarpocration (Lex. s. v. IdoSv'Yos'ApQpoS8rr), stratus, who lived in the second century after
though the former writer says it came from the Christ. (Damian. p. 601, ed. Paris, 1608.)
third book, and the latter from the sixth. 10. Me- 6. A grammarian of Thyatira, who is supposed
AiooovpyLca' (Athen. p. 68). 11. Nu(ploL (Schol. by Fabricius to have been the same person as
Nicand. Ther.). 12. OiTracK', a poem in hexameter Nicander of Colophon, on account of an expression
verse, in at least two books, quoted by Athenaeus used by Stephanus Byzantinus (De Urb. s. v.
(pp. 282, 329, 411). 13.'OieaKov (Schol. Nicand. OvdTetpa); it is, however, more probable that
Titer.; comp. Suid. s. v. IIdAurpios), 14. The Stephanus confounded together two different indisixth book IleplrErese'v, (Athen. p. 606).* 15. viduals. He wrote a work, niepl -s'v AhOiY/
rlepi Io7T1rrcO (Parthen. Erot. c. 4), perhaps the (Harpocrat. Lex. s. v. Ovpyzwv/at,. TrraKat),
same work as that quoted by the scholiast on the and another called by Athenaeus (xv. p. 678),
" Theriaca," with the title Iep L'rv d, KoXopveTV'ArT'rK)'OvoyeaTae which is probably the same as
rIot7wr',; and probably the work in which Nicander that quoted by Harpocration, under the title
tried to prove that Homer was a native of Colophon'A-t'I rC ALdXEsoes (s. v. ME'8I1V/os, BWXAEWveS,
(Cramer's Anecd. Gr. Paris. iii. p. 98). 16. The Tpar77pa), and which consisted of at least eighteen
flpoyVaro'Tcd of Hippocrates paraphrased in hex- books. (Harpocr. s. v. ZnpaXoiqpe7Zv.) This is proameter verse (Suid.). 17. ZIcsEAd, of which the bably the work which is frequently quoted by
tenth book is quoted by Stephanus Byzantinus Athenaeus (iii. pp. 76, 81, 114, &c.).
(s. v. ZdyiCrv). 18.'TdLOveos (Schol. Nicand. 7. A native of Delphi, mentioned by Plutarch,
Tlter.). 19. "Trvoo (ibid.). 20. IEol Xp7rz0~lpfwvv and called in one passage lepe's (De EI apud
7ravrsov, in three books. (Suid.) Delphos, c. 5, vol. iii. p. 82), and in another
Nicander's poems have generally been published?rpop r/zls (De Defectu Oraculz c. 51, vol. iii. p.
together, but sometimes separately. They were 200), may possibly, as Wyttenbach supposes, be
first published in Greek at the end of Dioscorides, the same individual as the son of Euthydemus
Venet. 1499, fol. ap. Aldum Manutium; and in a mentioned above, No. 4. (Wyttenb. Notes to
separate form, Venet. 1523, 4to. in aedib. Aldi. Plut. De Recta Rat. Aud. p. 37, c.)
Both poems were translated into Latin verse by 8. " Ambrosius Nicander, Toletanus, qui circa
Jo. Gorraeus, and by Euricius Cordus, and the A. Chr. 817, S. Cyriaci Episcopi Anconitani Mar" Theriaca" also by P. J. Steveius. The Greek tyrium versibus Latinis scripsisse, et catalepses (sive
paraphrase of both poems by Eutecnius first ap- argumenta) in Silii Italici libros composuisse trapeared in Bandini's edition, Florent. 1764, 8vo. ditur." (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. iv. p. 354, ed.
The most complete and valuable edition that has Harles.) Fabricius' gives no authority for this
hitherto appeared is J. G. Schneider's, who pub- statement, nor does Harles supply the defect. It
lished the Alexipharmaca in 1792, Halae, 8vo., appears, however, that there has been some conand the Theriaca in 1816, Lips. 8vo.; containing fusion respecting this personage, who is, in fact,
a Latin translation, the scholia, the paraphrase by no other than Ambrosius de Victoria (or Nicander),
Eutecnius, the editor's annotations, and the frag- who lived in the sixteenth century. (See Anton.
ments of Nicander's lost works. The last edition Biblioth. frisp. Vetus, vol. i. p. 508, vol. ii. p. 452
is that published by Didot, together with Oppian id. Biblioth. Hisp. Nova, vol. i. p. 67.)
and Marcellus Sidetes, in his collection of Greek 9. Nicander Nucius [NucIus]. [W. A. G.]
classical authors, Paris, large 8vo. 1846, edited by NICA'NOR (Nuridovp). 1. Son of Parmenion,
F. S. Lehrs, and at present (it is believed) un- a distinguished officer in the service of Alexander.
finished. The " Theriaca" were published in the He is first mentioned at the passage of the Danube,
Cambridge " Museum Criticum " (vol. i. p. 370, &c.), in the expedition of Alexander against the Getae,
with. Bentley's emendations, copied from the margin B. c. 335, on which occasion he led the phalanx.
of a copy of Gorraeus's edition, which once (ap- (Arr. Anab. i. 4. ~ 3.) But during the expedition
parently)- belonged to Dr. Mead, and is now pre- into Asia he appears to have uniformly held the
chief command of the body of troops called the
~ This work, however, is attributed to one of Hypaspists (vrwac7rmLeTat) or foot-guards, as his
the other writers of this name, by both Schweigh- brother Philotas did that of the eTrapol, or horseaenser and Dindorf, in their " Ind. Auctor." to guards. We find him mentioned, as holding this
Athenaeus. post, in the three great battles.of the Granicus, of
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