N

Naber, Dutch biblical scholar, 554

Naevius, Cnaeus, dramatist and poet (?-ca. 202 B.C.), 74-75, 98, 155, 241

Naissus (Nish), 630, 653

names, 56-57, 76

Naples (anc. Neapolis), 4, 35, 37, 52, 141, 236, 237, 278, 316, 356, 455, 456, 457, 461; Bay of, 11, 133, 325

Naples Museum, 349, 350, 351, 352, 354, 459-460, 634

Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French (1769-1821), 412, 416, 484, 553, 670

Narbo (Narbonne), 116, 473

Narcissus, secretary of Claudius (?-54 A.D.), 270-273

Narcissus (or Dionysus), 459

Nativity, 558-559

Natura Deorum, De (Cicero), 163*

Natural History (Pliny the Elder), see Historia Naturalis

nature, love of, in Lucretius, 147;

in Virgil, 238;

in Horace, 246;

in Rome, 343;

in Pliny the Younger, 440;

Christ’s, 559

Nature of Things, On the (Lucretius), see Rerum Natura, De

Naucratis, 498, 499

naumachia, 270, 377, 383, 470

naval battles, sham, see naumachia

navigation, 308, 324-326

navy, Carthaginian, 43, 44, 45, 54, 106, 107;

under the Republic, 44-45, 80, 106, 107, 139-140, 183-185, 206-207, 518;

under the Principate, 217, 219, 220, 308, 325, 337, 413, 455

Nazarenes, 559-560, 576

Nazareth, 535, 554, 558, 560, 562, 563

Neaera, 247

Neapolis, see Naples

Near East, 5, 211, 254, 559, 615

Nebuchadrezzar II, King of Babylon (reigned 605-562 B.C.), 39

Nemean games, 283, 486-487

Nemi (Aricia), 61, 351

Neoplatonism, 502, 514, 595, 604, 607

Neo-Pythagoreans, 497, 594, 604, 607, 614

Nepos, Cornelius, historian and biographer (100-29 B.C.), 146, 160, 162

Neptune, 60, 63

Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. Originally Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus), Roman emperor (37-68), 56, 68, 81, 92, 159, 263, 273, 274-285, 286, 289, 293, 295-296, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 306, 307, 323, 324, 326*, 330, 334, 336, 339, 344-345, 347, 350-351, 352, 358, 359, 361, 363, 366, 371, 372, 374, 375, 379, 380, 384, 388, 397, 418, 434, 443, 456, 479, 482, 483, 485, 490, 491, 525, 528, 554, 575, 578, 587, 591, 593, 594, 603, 632, 633, 646, 647, 667

Nero, Baths of, 359, 375

Nero, Circus of, 578

Nero, son of Agrippina the Elder (fl. 1st century A.D.), 262, 263*, 264

Nero, Tiberius Claudius, noble, father of Tiberius (fl. 1st century B.C.), 205

Neronia, 277, 296, 381

Nerva (Marcus Cocceius Nerva), Roman emperor (32-98), 307, 365*, 371, 407-408, 425, 433, 434, 521, 633

Nerva, 407, 442, 547

Nervii, 175

Nestus, 630

Neumagen, 474

New Academy, 164, 308

New Babylon, 260

New Carthage, see Nova Carthago

New Comedy (in Athens), 99

New Jerusalem, 594, 605

Newman, John Henry, Cardinal, English writer (1801-1890), 493

newspapers, Caesar’s, 172

New Testament, 553-595;601, 603, 605, 615, 616

New Year, 65, 221

New York, 81, 100, 325, 337, 340, 360*

Nicaea (Is-nik), 418, 516, 520, 629, 636, 659

Nicaea, Council of, 659-661, 662, 663

Nice (anc. Nicaea), 474

Nicene Creed, 660*

Nicias, (Greek Anthology), 510

Nicodemus, Jewish Pharisee (1st century), 569

Nicolaus of Damascus, Greek historian (fl. 1st century B.C.), 512-513, 532, 534

Nicomedes II Epiphanes, King of Bithynia (reigned 142-91 B.C.), 120, 518

Nicomedes III Philopator, King of Bithynia (reigned 91-74 B.C.), 167, 518-519

Nicomedia (Is-nikmid), 418, 490, 516, 520, 629, 635, 640, 644, 651, 655, 659, 661

Nicopolis, 482, 490

Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, German historian and philologist (1776-1831), 16*, 392

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, German philosopher (1844-1900), 104

Nigrinus, general of Trajan (?-118), 414

Nike, 461

Nile, 188, 419, 498, 499, 502, 636

Nile, Battle of the, 188

Nîmes (anc. Nemausus), 357, 417, 422, 473

Nineveh, 9*

Nisibis (Nisibin), 530

Nisida (anc. Nesis), 132

Noah, 528

Nola (Nola), 37, 122, 232

Nomentum, 316

Norba Caesarina (Alcantara), 470

Noreia (Neumarkt), 118

Noricum, 218, 429, 480

North, the, 481

North Sea, 470, 478

Nova Carthago, or New Carthage (Cartagena), 47, 49, 53, 112, 470

Novatian, Christian schismatic (fl. 3rd century), 618

Novatus, Christian schismatic (fl. 3rd century), 618

Novatus, Marcus Annaeus (Gallio), governor (?-65), 282, 470, 584

Nova Via, 340, 341

novel, the, 295, 296-299, 514, 633, 636-637

Nubians, 366, 500

Numa Pompilius, second King of Rome (fl. 8th and 7th centuries B.C.), 13, 66, 80, 167*

Numantia, 87, 115, 118

Numbers, 536

Numidia, 49, 53, 105-106, 118, 160, 168, 190, 357, 366, 462, 466

numina, 59-60

Numitor, legendary King of Latium (8th century B.C.), 12

nursing of children, in the Republic, 58; under the Principate, 367

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 350

nymphaea, see fountains

Nymphs, 238-239