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 NACONA. ArcaJius, Nacoleia was occupied by a Gothic £rar- rison, which revolted against the emperor. (Phi- lostorg. xi. 8; comp. Hierocl. p. 678 ; Cone. Chal- ced. p. 578.) The Peuting. Table places it 20 miles south of Dorylaeum, and Col. Leake (^Asia Minor, p. 24) is inclined to identify the place with Pismesh Knlesi, near Boganlu, where he saw some very remarkable, apparently sepulchral, monuments. But the monuments alluded to by Leake seem to have belonged to a more important place than Na- coleia, and Texier {Descript de VAsie Min. vol. i.) asserts that it is proved by coins that Nacoleia was situated on the site of the modern Sidiijhasl, on the Borth-west of Boganlu. [L. S.l NACO'NA (NaKiivrj, Steph. B. : Eth. Naicw- i/ajoy), a town of Sicily mentioned only by Stephanus of Byzantium, who cites Philistus as his authority. The accuracy of the name is, however, confirmed by coins, the earliest of which bear the legend NAKO- NAION, while those of later date have NAKH- NAinN. From one of the latter we learn that the town had been occupied by the Campanians, appa- rently at the same period with Aetna and Entella. (Millingen, Ancient Coins, pp. 33 — 35; Sestini, Lett. Num. vol. vii. pi. L) There is no clue to its position. [E. H. B.] NA'CRASA (NaKpaaa), a town in the north of Lydia, on the road from Thyatira to Pergamum. (Ptol. V. 2. § 16; Hierocl. p. 670, where it is called 'A/cpoffoj.) ChishuU (^Aiit. Asiat. p. 146) has identified the place by means of coins with Bakhir, or Bakri, somewhat to the north-east of Somma. (Comp. Arundell, Seven Churches, p. 276.) [L. S.] NAISSUS. 395 COIN OF NACRASA. NAEBIS or NEBIS. [Gallaeclv, Vol. L p. 933 ; MiNIUS.] NAELUS (Na?Aos, Ptol. ii. 6. § 5), a river on the north coast of Hispania Tarraconensis, in the ter- ritory of the Paesici, a tribe of the Astures. Now the Nalon. NAGADIBA (Na7a5(§o, Ptol. vii. 4. § 7 : Eth. NaydSieoi, Ptol. vii. 4. § 9), a town in the NE. comer of the island of Taprobane or Cei/lon, at no great distance from the capital Anurogrammum. Ptolemy gives the same name to one of a group of islands which, he states, surrounded Ceylon, (vii. 4. § 13). The name may be a corruption of the Sanscrit Nngadicipa, which would mean Island of Snakes. ry/i NAGARA (Nayopa), a city in the NV. part of India intra Gangem, distinguished in Ptolemy by the title 7} ko. AtovvadnoAis (vii. 1. § 43). It is no doubt the present Nagar, between the Kdhd river and the Indus. From the second name which Ptolemy has preserved, we are led to behove that this is the same place as Nysa or Nyssa, vhich was spared from plunder and destraction by Alexander because the inhabitants asserted that it had been founded by Bacchus or Dionysus, when he conquered the Indians. (Arrian, Anab. v. 1 ; Curt. viii. 10. § 7.) A mountain called Meron was said to over- hang the city, which was also connected with the legend of Bacchus having been reared in the thio-h of Zeus. [v"] NAGARA. [Marsyabae.] NAGEIKI (Nayeipot or 'Haviyeipoi, Ptol. vii. 4. § 9), one of the two most southern tribes of Tapro- bane ( Ceylon). They appear to have lived in the immediate neighbourhood of what Ptolemy calls, and what are still, " the Elephant Pastures," and to have had a town called the city of Dionysus (^Aioviicov rr6ts or &Kpov), which is probably represented now by the ruins of Kaitregam (Davy, A ccount of Cey- lon, p. 420; Ritter, Erdkunde, vi. p. 22); if these are not, as some have supposed, the remams of Mor- dulamne. [V.] NA'GIDUS (NdytSos'. EtLliayiSevs), a, tovm of Cilicia on the coast, said to have been colonised by the Samians. Stephanus B. mentions an island named Nagidusa, which coiTesponds to a little rock about 200 feet long, close to the castle of Anamowr. (Strab. siv. p. 670; Mela, i. 13. §5; Scylax, p. 40; Steph. B. s. V. ; Beaufort, Karamaiiia, p. 206; Cra- mer, Asi<i Minor, vol. ii. p. 326. COIN OF NAGIDUS. NAGNA'TA (Nciyi/ara, Ptol. ii. 2. §4, in the old editt. Ndyvara), an important town (iroAir €iri- arjixos) on the west coast of Ireland, in the territory of the Nagnatae (^Nayvarat, Ptol. ii. 2. § 5), pro- bably situated upon Sligo Bay. NAHALAL (NogadA, LXX.), a city of the tribe of Zabulon, mentioned only in Joshua (xix. 15). Eusebius identifies it with a village named Nila (NeiAa), in Batanaea ; but Eeland justly remarks, that this is without the territory of the tribe of Zabulon. (Palaestina, s. v. p. 904.) [G. W.] NAHARVALI, one of the most powerful tribes of the Lygii, in the north-east of Germany. Tacitus (Germ. 43) relates that the country inhabited by them (probably about the Vistula) contained an ancient and much revered grove, presided over by a priest in female attire. It was sacred to twin gods called Alcis, whom Tacitus identifies with Castor and Pollux. (Latham on Tac. Germ. I. c; Spren- gel, Erhiiter. zu Tac. Germ. p. 140.) [L. S.] NAIN (NaiV), a village of Palestine, mentioned by St. Luke as the scene of the raising of the widow's son (vii. 11). Eusebius places it two miles S. of Mount Tabor, near Endor, in the district of Scytho- polis (Onomast. s. vv.'HvSwp and NaiV), where a poor village of the same name is found at the present; day, on the northern slope of Little Ilermon, and a short distance to the W. of 'Ain-dor. (Robinson, Bib. Re.'i. vol. iii. p. 226.) [G.AV.] NAIOTH (Navad eV 'Pa/ma, LXX. in 1 Sam. xix. 18, 19. 22, 23). [Rama.] ' [G. W.] NAISSUS (NaiVrffoy, Steph. B. .9. v. ; 'NaTaffOs, Ptol. iii. 9. § 6; Naifroj, Zosim. iii. 11; NoiVroy, Hierocl. p. 654), an important town in Upper Moe- sia, situated in the district Dardania, upon an eastern tributary of the river Margus, and upon the military road running through this country. It was in the neighbourhood of Naissus that Claudius II. gained