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

NUMISIUS. NYCTEUS.'1215
NUMI/CIUS. 1. TI. NUMIccIs, tribuneof the Herculaneum. His name is preserved in an inplebs, B. c. 320, was with his colleague, Q. Maelius, scription on the building. [P. S.]
given over to the Samnites, when the Romans re- NU'MITOR. [RoMULUS.]
solved not to adhere to the peace made at Call- NUMITO'RIA. 1. The mother of Virginia.
dium. Livy calls the colleague of Maelius, L. Julius (Dionys. xi. 30.) [NUMITORIUS, No. 2.]
and not Numicius (Cic. de Of.. iii. 30; Liv. ix. 8). 2. The wife of M. Antonius Creticus, praetor
For further details, see MAELIUS, No. 3. B. C. 75, was the daughter of Q. Numitorius Pullus,
2. NuMicius, to whom Horace addresses the who betrayed Fregellae. [NUMITORIuS, No. 3.]
sixth epistle of his first book, is otherwise a person She left no children. (Cic. Phil. iii. 6.)
quite unknown. NUMITO'RIA GENS, plebeian, was of conNU'MIDA, M'. AEMILIUS, was decemvir siderable antiquity, but none of its members ever
sacrorum, and died in B. c. 211. (Liv. xxvi. 23.) attained any of the higher offices of the state.
NU'MIDA, PLO'TIUS, a friend of Horace, Pullus is the only cognomen which occurs in this
who addresses to him one of his odes (i. 36), to gens. The annexed coin belongs to this gens, but
celebrate his safe arrival in Italy, after undergoing it is quite uncertain to whom it refers.
the perils of the war against the Cantabri in Spain.
NUMI'DICUS, the agnomen of Q. Metellus,
who fought againstJugurtha.. [METELLUS, No. 14.]
NUMI'DIUS QUADRA'TUS. [QUADRATUS.]
NUMI'SIA GENS, is probably merely another
orthography of Numicia Gens. [NUMICIA GENS.]
In the time of the republic we find no Numisii
with a cognomen [NuIMIsIus], but under the COIN OF NUMITORIA GENS.
empire persons of this name occur, with the cognornens of Lupus and RUFUS. NUMITO'RIUS. 1. L. NUM1TORIUS, is menNUMISIA'NUS (NovuLAtarvs, written also tioned as one of the five tribunes who were first
Nol)em'Lavo's, Novuylrravos, or Noeue'avdos, but more elected in the comitia tributa, B. c. 472 (Liv. ii. 58).
frequently in the first of these forms), an eminent 2. P. NUMiTORIUS, the maternal uncle of Virphysician at Corinth, whose lectures Galen attended ginia, attempted to resist the iniquitous sentence of
about A. D. 150, having gone to Corinth for that the decemvir App. Claudius, and was elected tribune
express purpose (Galen, de Anat. Adsin. i. 1, vol. of the plebs upon the expulsion of the decemvir,
ii. p. 217). He was, according to Galen (I. c.), the B.C. 449. In his tribunate he accused Sp. Oppius,
most celebrated of all the pupils of Quintus, and one of the late decemvirs. (Liv. iii. 45, 54
one of the tutors to Pelops (id. Cbollment. in Hippoce. Dionys. xi. 28, 38, 46.)
"De Nat. Hom." ii. 6. vol. xv. p. 136), and dis- 3. Q. NUMITORIUS PULLUS, of Fregellae, betinguished himself especially by his anatomical trayed his native town to the Roman praetor L.
knowledge. He wrote a commentary on the Opimius, B. C. 125, when it rose in revolt to obtalin
" Aphorisms" of Hippocrates (id. Comment. in the Roman franchise. The town was taken and
Hipipocr. "lDe Humnor." i. 24, vol. xvi. p. 197, destroyed by Opimius (Cic. de Invent. ii. 34; comp.
Commnent. in Hippocr. " Ap.lor." iv. 69, v. 44, vol. Cic. de Leg. Ag;r. ii. 33; Liv. Ep)it. 60; Vell. Pat.
xvii. pt. ii. pp. 751, 837), which appears to have ii. 6). The daughter of this Numitorius married
been well thought of in Galen's time. He is also M. Antonius Creticus. [NUMITORIA, No. 2.]
mentioned by Galen, de Ord. Libror. suor. vol. xix. 4. C. NUMITORIUS, was a distinguished man of
p. 57, and de Anat. Admin. viii. 2, vol. ii. p. 660, the aristocratical party, who was put to death by
and bk. xiv. (in MS. Arabic translation in the Marius and Cinna, when they entered Rome at
Bodleian library). [W. A. G.] the close of B. C. 88. His body was afterwards
NUMI'SIUS. 1. L. NuMIsIus of Circeii, was dragged through the forum by the executioner's
one of the two chief magistrates (praetores) of the hook. (Appian, B. C. i. 72; Flor. iii. 21. ~ 14.)
Latins in B. C. 340, the year in which the great 5. C. NUMITORIUS, a Roman eques, who was a
Latin war broke out, and was the principal comr- witness against Verres. (Cic. Verr. v. 63.)
mander in the war. (Liv. viii. 3, 11.) NU'MMIUS, is a name which occurs only in
2. C. NUMISIUS, praetor B. c. 177, obtained the Fasti and inscriptions of the time of the empire.
Sicily as his province. (Liv. xli. 8.) Thus we find a T. Rusticus Nummius Gallus, consul
3. T. NUMISIus, of Tarquinii, was one of the suffectus, A. D. 26, a Nummius Sisenna, consul A. D.
ten commissioners sent into Macedonia in B. C. 167, 1 33, and a M. Nummius Albinus, consul A. D. 206,
to regulate its affairs after its conquest by Aemilius NUMO'NIUS VALA. [VALA.]
Paullus (Liv. xlv. 17). About the same time, or NYCTE'IS (NvUKT'7L), a feminine patronymic of
a little earlier, he was at the head of the embassy Nycteus, and applied to his daughter Antiope, the
sent by the Roman senate to endeavour to mediate wife of Polydorus and mother of Labdacus. (Apolbetween Antiochus Epiphanes and the two Pto- lod. iii. 5. ~ 5; NYCTEUS.) [L. S.]
lemies (Philometorand Physcon). (Polyb. xxix. NYCTEUS (NVICrevs), a son of Hyrieus by
10.) the nymph Clonia, brother of Lycus and Orion,
4. NUMISIUS, seems to have been the name of and husband of Polyxo, by whom he became the
an architect, since Cicero speaks of Numisiana father of Antiope. (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 1; Anton.
formna, that is, the plan of a house or villa designed Lib. 25.) According to others Antiope was the
by one Numisius. (Cic. ad Q. Fr. ii. 2. ~ 1.) daughter of the river-god Asopus. (Apollod. 1. c.;
5. NUMISIUS TIRo, is branded by Cicero as one Hom. Od. xi. 259, &c.) Antiope was carried off
of the cut-throats of M. Antonius, the triumvir. by Epopeus, king of Aegialeia; and Nycteus, who,
(Cic. Phil. ii. 4, v. 6, xii. 6.) as the guardian of Labdacus, was staying at
NUMI'SIUS, the architect of the theatre at Thebes, took revenge by invading with a Theban