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