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Rh 3. Γλωσσαι, a work in at least three books; quoted by Athenaeus (p. 288) and other writers.4. Τεροιούμενα, a poem in hexameter verse, in five books, mentioned by Suidas, and quoted by Athenaeus (pp. 82, 305), Antoninus Liberalis (Metamorph. cc. 12, 35), and other writers. It was perhaps in reference to this work that Didymus applied to Nicander the epithet "fabulosus" (Macrob. Saturn, v. 22.).5. Εύρωπία, or Περί Εύρωπης, in at least five books, quoted by Athenaeus (p. 296), Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. Άθως), and others.6. Ήμίαμξοι, mentioned by the scholiast on the Theriaca.7. ηξαϊκά, in at least three books, mentioned by the scholiast on the Theriaca., and probably alluded to by Plutarch (de Herod. Malign, c. 33, vol, v, p. 210, ed. Tauchn.).8. Ίάσεων Συναγωγ, mentioned by Suidas.9. Κολοφωνιακά, of which work the same passage is quoted both by Athenaeus (p. 569) and Harpocration (Lex. s. v. Πάνδημος Άφροδίτη), though the former writer says it came from the third book, and the latter from the sixth.10. Μελισσουργικά (Athen. p. 68).11. Νύμϕιοι (Schol. Nicand. Ther.).12. Οίταϊκά, a poem in hexameter verse, in at least two books, quoted by Athenaeus (pp. 282, 329, 411).13. Όφιακόν (Schol. Nicand. Ther.; comp. Suid. s. v. Πάμφιλος).14. The sixth book Περιπετειων (Athen. p. 606). 15. Περί Ποιητων (Parthen. Erot. c. 4), perhaps the same work as that quoted by the scholiast on the "Theriaca," with the title Περί των έν Κολοφωνι Ποιητων; and probably the work in which Nicander tried to prove that Homer was a native of Colophon (Cramer's Anecd. Gr. Paris, iii. p. 98).16. The Προγνοστικά of Hippocrates paraphrased in hexameter verse (Suid.).17. Σικελιά, of which the tenth book is quoted by Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. Ζάγκλη).18. Ύάκινθος (Schol. Nicand. Ther.).19. Ύπνος (ibid.). 20. Πεοι Χρηστηρίων πάντων, in three books. (Suid.)

Nicander's poems have generally been published together, but sometimes separately. They were first published in Greek at the end of Dioscorides, Venet. 1499, fol, ap. Aldum Manutium; and in a separate form, Venet. 1523, 4to. in aedib. Aldi. Both poems were translated into Latin verse by Jo. Gorraeus, and by Euricius Cordus, and the "Theriaca" also by P. J. Steveius. The Greek paraphrase of both poems by Eutecnius first appeared in Bandini's edition, Florent. 1764, 8vo. The most complete and valuable edition that has hitherto appeared is J. G. Schneider's, who published the Alexipharmaca in 1792, Halae, 8vo., and the Theriaca in 1816, Lips. 8vo.; containing a Latin translation, the scholia, the paraphrase by Eutecnius, the editor's annotations, and the fragments of Nicander's lost works. The last edition is that published by Didot, together with Oppian and Marcellus Sidetes, in his collection of Greek classical authors, Paris, large 8vo. 1846, edited by F. S. Lehrs, and at present (it is believed) unfinished. The "Theriaca" were published in the Cambridge "Museum Criticum" (vol. i. p. 370, &c.), with Bentley's emendations, copied from the margin of a copy of Gorraeus's edition, which once (apparently) belonged to Dr. Mead, and is now preserved in the British Museum. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr., vol. iv. p. 345, &c. ed, Harles; Haller, Biblioth. Botan. and Biblioth. Medic. Pract.; Sprengel, Hist. de la Méd.; Choulant, Handb. der Bücherkunde für die Aeltere Medicin.)  2. A Peripatetic philosopher of Alexandria, who wrote a work Περἰ των Άριστοτέλους Μαθητων. (Suid. s. v.Αἰσχρίων.)  3. A native of Chalcedon, who wrote a work relating to Prusias, king of Bithynia, entitled Προσίου Συμπτώματα, of which the fourth book is quoted by Athenaeus (xi. p. 496).  4. The son of Euthydemus, introduced by Plutarch in his dialogue, ''De Solert. Animal''. § 8. (vol. v. p. 444, ed. Tauchn.), and in his Symposiaca, is, perhaps, the person to whom he addressed his treatise, ''De recta Rat. Aud''. vol. i. p. 86. He lived in the first century after Christ.  5. A foolish sophist, mentioned by Philostratus, who lived in the second century after Christ. (Damian. p. 601, ed. Paris, 1608.)  6. A grammarian of Thyatira, who is supposed by Fabricius to have been the same person as Nicander of Colophon, on account of an expression used by Stephanus Byzantinus (De Urb. s. v. Θυάτειρα); it is, however, more probable that Stephanus confounded together two different individuals. He wrote a work, Περί των Δημων (Harpocrat. Lex. s. v. Θυργωνίδαι, Τιτακίδαι), and another called by Athenaeus (xv. p. 678), Άττική Όνόματα, which is probably the same as that quoted by Harpocration, under the title Άττική Διάλεκτος (s. v. Μέδιμνος, Βωλεωνες Τριπτηρα), and which consisted of at least eighteen books. (Harpocr. s. v. ξηραλοιφειν.) This is probably the work which is frequently quoted by Athenaeus (iii, pp. 76, 81, 114, &c.).  7. A native of Delphi, mentioned by Plutarch, and called in one passage ίερεύς (De EI apud Delphos, c. 5, vol. iii, p. 82), and in another προφήτης (De Defectu Oracul. c. 51, vol. iii. p. 200), may possibly, as Wyttenbach supposes, be the same individual as the son of Euthydemus mentioned above. No. 4. (Wyttenb. Notes to Plut. De Recta Rat Aud. p. 37, c.)  8. "Ambrosius Nicander, Toletanus, qui circa A, Chr. 817, S. Cyriaci Episcopi Anconitani Martyrium versibus Latinis scripsisse, et catalepses (sive argumenta) in Silii Italici libros composuisse traditur." (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. iv. p. 354, ed. Harles.) Fabricius gives no authority for this statement, nor does Harles supply the defect. It appears, however, that there has been some confusion respecting this personage, who is, in fact, no other than Ambrosius de Victoria (or Nicander), who lived in the sixteenth century. (See Anton. Biblioth. Hisp. Vetus, vol. i. p. 508, vol. ii. p. 452; id. Biblioth. Hisp. Nova., vol. i. p. 67.) <section end="Nicander12" /> <section begin="Nicander13" />9. Nicander Nucius []. <section end="Nicander13" /> <section begin="Nicanor" />NICA'NOR (Νικάνωρ).1. Son of Parmenion, a distinguished officer in the service of Alexander. He is first mentioned at the passage of the Danube, in the expedition of Alexander against the Getae, 335, on which occasion he led the phalanx, (Arr. Anab. i, 4. § 3.) But during the expedition into Asia he appears to have uniformly held the chief command of the body of troops called the Hypaspists (ύπασπισταί) or foot-guards, as his brother Philotas did that of the έταίροι, or horseguards. We find him mentioned, as holding this post, in the three great battles of the Granicus, of <section end="Nicanor" />

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