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

NILUS. NINUS. 1203
Neleus (NsiXevs), though NEL'evs is probably the Nilus, which had not been printed in the abovemost correct form of the word, as it is the most mentioned edition, were published by Possinus,
common. He must have lived some time in or Paris, 1639, 4to.; but the *best edition of his
before the third century B. C., as he is mentioned miscellaneous works is that of Suaresius, entitled
by Heracleides of Tarentum (ap. Galen. Comment. S. Nili Tractatusseu Opuscula, Rome, 1673, fol. The
in Hippocr. " De Artic." iv. 40, vol. xviii. pt. i. letters of Nilus, which are very numerous, being
p. 736). He is quoted by Celsus (v. 18. ~ 9, more than three hundred, were first published by
vi. 6. ~~ 8, 11, viii. 20. pp. 86, 120, 121, 185), Possinus, Paris, 1657, 4to.; but abetter edition is
Caelius Aurelianus (De Morb. Acut. ii. 29, p. 142), the one published at Rome, 1668, fol., with the
Galen (De Compos. iliedicam. sec. Loc. ii. 2, iv. 8, Latin version of Leo Allatius. Of the various
viii. 5, ix. 2, vol. xii. pp. 568, 569, 765, 766, works of Nilus the most important are, 1. KeqPd806, vol. xiii. pp. 181, 182, 239, De Antid. ii. Acna t lapae vep-eEts, containing advice on the way
10, vol. xiv. p. 165), Alexander Trallianus (viii. in which a Christian should live; in fact, a sum12. p. 268), Oribasius (Synops. iii. p. 50.; and mary of practical divinity. 2. Letters, for the
Coll. JMedic. in Mai's Class. Auct. e Codic. Vatic. most part on the same subject as the preceding work.
Edit. vol. iv. pp. 123, 130, 131, 153, 155), Adtius 3.'Eru'7rjT7'v' fyXep3ovY, in which the Manual of
(i. 4, 10, ii. 3, 21, 24, 108, ii. 4, 2, iii. 1, 16, 17, Epictetus, as given by Arrian, is accommodated to
pp. 166, 307, 308, 353, 365, 454, 455), and the use of Christians. This manual, which appears
Paulus Aegineta (iii. 22, 37, 46, 49, vii. 16, 18, in the edition of Suaresiusmentioned above, is also
pp. 432, 458, 470, 473, 672, 684), and was cele- published in the fifth volume of Schweighiiuser's
brated for the invention of a machine for the re- Epictetats, Lips. 1800. (Phot. 1. c.; Niceph. H. E.
duction of dislocations, called irAwvOlo', of which a xiv. 54; Allatius, Fabric. II. cc.; Cave, Hist. Lit.
description is given by Oribasius (De Machinamn. vol. i. p. 428; Tillemont, Mim. de l'Hist. Eccl.
c. 8. p. 167.) [W. A. G.] vol. xiv. p. 189.)
NILO'XENUS (NelAotdeos). 1. A native of 2. CABASILAS. [CABASILAS.]
Naucratis in Egypt, mentioned by Plutarch (Sept. 3. Of RHODES, of which he was metropolitan,
Sap. Conv. 2) as a sage who lived in the time of about A. D. 1360. He is stated, however, to have
Solon. been a native of Chios. He was the author of
2. A Macedonian, son of Satyrus. He was a several works, of which the most important was a
friend of Alexander the Great, and was left by him short history of the nine oecumenical councils,
with an army to superintend the affairs of the pro- published by H. Justellus as an appendix to the
vince, when he founded Alexandria on Mount Cau- JVonoocanon of Photius, Paris, 1615, 4to.; by Voelcasus. (Arr. iii. 28.) [C. P. M.] lius and Justellus in Bibl. Juris Canonici, 1661,
NILUS (NesAor), the god of the river Nile in fol. vol. ii. p. 1155; and by Harduinus, Concilia,
Egypt, is said to have been a son of Oceanus and vol. v. p. 1479. Nilus also wrote some grammatiThetys, and father of Memphis and Chione. (Hes. cal works, of which:an account is given by F.
Theog. 338; Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 4; Serv. ad Alen. iv. Passow, De Nilo, grammatico adhuc ignoto, ejusqune
250.) Pindar (Pyth. iv. 90) calls him a son of grasmmatica aliisque grammaticis Scriptis, Vratisl.
Cronos. [L. S.] 1831-32, 4to.
NILUS or NEILUS (Ne7Aos), the name of 4. SCHOLASTICUS, of whom we know nothing,
several Byzantine writers. A full account of them except that he is the author of an epigram in the
is given by Leo Allatius, Diatribe de Nilis et Greek Anthology (vol. iii. p. 235, ed. Jacobs;
eorumn Scriptis, in the edition of the letters of Brunck, Anal. iii. p. 14).
Nilus [see below, No. 1], Rome, 1688, and by NILUS, physician. [NTLEUS].
Harless (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 3, &c.), NI'NNIA GENS, plebeian, and of very little
to which writers we must refer for further par- note. No persons of this name are mentioned at
ticulars and authorities. It is only the most Rome till towards the end of the republic, when
important of them, and the chief facts connected we read of L. Ninnius Quadratus, a warm friend
with them that can be mentioned here. of Cicero's [QUAnDRATUS]. But as early as the
1. ASCETA ET MONACHUS (and Saint), lived second Punic war there was a noble house of this
in the fifth century of the Christian aera. Saxius name at Capua, and the Ninnii Celeres are menplaces him about the year A.D. 420. He was tioned among the noble and wealthy families with
descended from a noble family in Constantinople, whom Hannibal resided during his stay in that
and was eventually raised to the dignity of eparch, city. (Liv. xxiii. 8.)
or governor of his native city; but being pene- NIINNIUS CRASSUS, is mentioned as one of
trated, we are told, with a deep feeling of the the translators of the Iliad into Latin verse (Prisreality of divine things, he renounced his rank cian, ix. p. 866, ed. Putschius), but the name is
and dignities, and retired with his son Theodulus perhaps corrupt. (Wernsdorf, 1Pot. Latin. Mito a monastery on Mount Sinai, while his wife nores, vol. iv. p. 569.)
and daughter took refuge in a religious retreat in NINUS (NsYos), the eponymous founder of the
Egypt. His son is said to have perished in an city of Ninus or Nineveh, must be regarded as a
attack made upon the convent by some barbarians; mythical and not an historical personage. His
but Nilus himself escaped, and appears to have exploits are so much mixed up with those of
died about A. D. 450 or 451. Semiramis, his wife, whose name was much more
Nilus was the author of many theological works, celebrated in antiquity, that we refer the account
several of which have been printed, though they of Ninus to the article Semiramis. [SsMIRAMIS.]
have not yet been collected into one edition. There is also another Ninus, who is represented
Photius gives extracts from some of his works. by some authorities as the last king of Nineveh,
(Bibl. Cod. 276.) Some of the works of Nilus and the successor of Sardanapalus, who is usually
were first published in Latin by P. F. Zinus, described as the last king. See SAatDANAPAVenet. 1557, 8vo. Next some other works of LUs.
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