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 NEArOLIS. the name of the city written among its brandies. (Eckhel, vol. iii. pp. 433—435 : see Gerizim, Vol. I. p. 992. a.) [G. W.] 2. A town of Colchis, south of Dioscurias, and north of Phasis, on the river Chobos or Chorsos. (Scyl. p. 27; Ptol. v. 10. § 2.) 3. A town on the coast ot Ionia, south of Epliesus, on the road between Anaea and Marathesium. It was a small place which at first belonged to the Ephesians, and afterwards to the Samians, who received it in exchange for Marathesium. (Strab. xiv. p. C39.) Most writers identify its site with the modern Scala Nova, at a distance of about three Iidurs' walk from the site of ancient Ephesus ; but Col. Leake (^Asia 3Iinor, p. 261) believes that this place marks the site of the ancient Marathesium, and that the ancient remains found about halfway between Scala Nova and Tshanrjli, belong to the ancient town of Neapolis. (Comp. Tournefort, Let- ters, XX. p. 402 ; Fellows, Journal of an Exc. in As. 31 in. p. 271, who identifies Neapolis with Tshangli or Chanf/li itself.) 4. A town in Caria, between Orthosia and Aphro- di.sias, at the foot of Mount Cadmus, in the neigh- bourhood of Hnrpasia. (Ptol. v. 2. § 19 ; Hierocl. p. 688.) Richter (Wallfahrten, p. 539) identifies it with the modern Jenibola, near Arpas Kalessi, the ancient Harpasa. Another town of the same name is mentioned on the coast of Caria by Mela (i. 16) and Pliny (v. 29); and it is clear that this cannot be the same town as that near Harpas ; it is probably only another name for New Myndus [MyndusJ. 5. A town in Pisidia, a few miles south of Antioch. (Ptol. v. 4. § 1 1 ; Hierocl. p. 672.) Pliny (v. 42) mentions it as a town of the Eoman province of Galatia, which embraced a portion of Pisidia. Franz {Fi'mf Insckriften, p. 35) identifies its site with Tutinek, where some ancient remains still exist. [L. S.] 6. A small place situated on the Euphrates, at the distance of 14 schoeni (about 40 miles) below Besechana. Eitter has tried, but unsuccess- fnlly (if the present numbers be correct) to identify it with Makla. (Isid. Alans. Parth. i. 12, ed. Miiller, 1855.) [V.] NEA'POLIS. III. In Africa. 1. In Egypt. [Caenki'olis.] 2. A town of Cyrenaica, which Ptolemy (iv. 4. § 11) places in 31° 10' lat. and 49° long. The town of Mahmj or Mably, with which it has been identi- fied, and which appears to be a corruption of the old name, with no other change than what might be e.xpected from the Arab pronunciation, does not quite agree with the position assigned by Ptolemy 10 Neapolis. (Beechey, Exped. to the N. Coast of Africa, p. 350; Barth, Wande7-ungen,Y^. 391. 405.) 3. [Leptis IVLVGNA.] 4. A town of Zeugitana with a harbour (Scylax, p. 47; Stadiasm. § 107 ), the same as the Maco- MADES of Pliny (v. 3; UaKStxa^a, Ptol. iv. 3. § 11); a " municipiuni," as it appears from the Antonine Itinerary (" Macomades Minores," Pent. Tab.; Geog. Rav. iii. 5); this latter name indicates a Phoenician origin. (Movers, Phoeniz. A Iferth. vol. ii. p. 494.) It has been identified with Kass'r Ounga, on the N. of the Gulf of Ilammdmct. 5. A factory of the Carthaginians upon the Sinus Neapolitan cs, from which it was the shortest dis- tance to Sicily— a voyage of two days and a night. (Time. vii. 50; Scylas, p 49; Stadiasm. § 107; Strab. xvii. p. 834.) It was taken by Agathocles in NEBRODES MONS. 413 his African campaign. (Diodor. xx. 17.) Under the earlier emperors it was a " liberum oppidum " (Plin. V. 3 ), afterwards under Hadrian a " colonia." (Ptol. iv. 3. § 8; Itin. Anton.; Pent. Tab.; Geog. Rav. v. 5.) The old name is retained in the modern Ndbel, where Barth (Wanderungen, p. 141; comp. Shaw. Trav. p. 161) found some remains of antiquity. [E. B J.] NEBIS. [Gallaecia, Vol. I. p. 933, a.] NEBO. 1. (NaSaD, LXX.), the mountain from which the patriarch Moses was permitted to view the Promised Land. Its situation is thus described: — "Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, mito Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho " (Z'e!/<. xxxii. 49); "and Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho." AVe have here three names of the mount, of which, however, Abarim may designate the range or mountain region rising from the high table-land of Moab (comp. Numbers, xxvii. 12. xxxiii. 47); while Pisgah is an appellative for a hill, — as it is rendered in our margin, wherever the name occurs in the text (Numb. xx'i. 20; Pcut. iii. 27, xxxiv. 1), and in several oriental versions (Lex. s. V, i^^Pp), — Nebo the proper name of some one particular peak. This name is regarded by M. Quatremere as of Aramaic origin, identical with that of the celebrated Chaldean divinity {Isaiah, xlvi. 1) so frequently compounded with the names of their most eminent kings, &c. ; and he discovers other names of like origm in the same parts. (Memoirs sur les Nabatiens, p. 87.) It is placed by Eusebius and St. Jerome 6 miles west of Esbus (Heshbon), over against Jericho, on the road from Livias to Esbus, near to Mount Phogor [Peor] : it was still called by its ancient name (Onomast. s. vv. Nabau, Abarim). Dr. Robinson has truly remarked that over against Jericho " there is no peak or point perceptibly higher than the rest; but all is appa- rently one level line of summit, without peaks or gaps." ..." Seetzen, Burckhardt, and also Irby and Mangles, have all found Mount Nebo in JtbeVAitd- rits, a high mountain south of the Ziirka Main " (Arnon). This, however, is far south of the lati- tude of Jericho. (Bib. Res. vol. iii. pp. 306, 307). 2. A town of the tribe of Reuben, mentioned with Heshbon, Elealeh, and others (Numb, xxxii. 38); doubtless the site now marked by Ntba m the Belka, south of Es-Salt (Robinson, £ib. Pes. vol. ii. p. 307, n. 1, vol. iii. appendix, p. 170), i. e. in the same district with Ilesbdn and El-'Al, the modern representatives of Heshbon and Elealeh. Whether this town was connected with the .synony- mous mountain is very uncertain. 3. A town in Judah. (Ezra, ii. 29; Nehem. vii. 33.) [G. W.] NEBRISSA. [Nabrissa.] NEBRODES MONS (la l^evpdS-n vpv, Stnib. : Monti di 3Iadonia'), one of the most considerable ranges of mountains in Sicily. The name was evidently applied to a part of the range which com- mences near Cape Pelorus, and extends along the northern side of the island, the whole way to the neighbourhood of Panornius. Though broken into various mountain groups, there is no real interrup- tion in the chain tln-oughout this extent, and the names applied to different parts of it seem to have been employed (as usual in such cases) with nuich vagueness. The part of the chain nearest to Cape Pelorus, was called ]Ions Neptunius, and therefore the Mons Nebrodcs must have been further to the