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 NEMEXTURI. Istliinns, it was not a town. The sacred grove contained only the temple, theatre, stadium, and other monuments. There was a villaeie in the neighbourhood called Bejibina (BeVS't'a), of which, however, the exact site is unknown. (Strab. vi;i. p. 377; Steph. B. s. v.) The haunts of the Ne- mean lion are said to have been near Bembina. (Theocr. xxv. 202.) The chief building in the sacred grove was the temple of Zeus Nemeius. the patron god of the place. When visited by Pausanias the )-oof had fallen, and the statue no longer remained (ii. 1.5. § 2). Three columns of the temple are still standing, amidst a vast heap of ruins. " Two of these columns be- longed to the pronaos, and were placed as usual be- tween antae; they are 4 feet 7 inches in diameter at the base, and still sup])ort their architrave. The third column, which belonged to the outer range, is 5 feet 3 inches in diameter at the base, and about 34 feet high, including a capital of 2 feet. Its dis- tance from the corresponding column of the pronaos is 18 feet. The total height of the three members of the entablature was 8 feet 2 inches. The general intercolumination of the peristyle was 7 feet; at the angles, 5 feet 10 inches. From the front of the pronaos to the extremity of the cell within, the length was 9.5 feet; the breadth of the cell within, 31 feet; the thickness of the walls, 3 feet. The temple was a hexastyle, of about 65 feet in breadth on the upper step of the stylobate, which consisted of three steps: the number of columns on the sides, and consequently the length of the temple, I could not ascertain." (Leake.) Though of the Doric order, the columns are as slender as some of the specimens of the Ionic, and are so different from the older Doric examples, that we ought probably to ascribe to the temple a date subsequent to the Per- sian wars. Among the other monuments in the sacred grove were the tombs of Opheltes, and of his father Ly- curgus. The former was surrounded with a stone enclosure, and contained certain altars; the latter was a mound of earth. (Pans. ii. 15. § 3.) Pau- sanias al.so mentions a fountain called Adrasteia. The latter is, doubtless, the source of water near the Turkish fountain, which is now without water. At the foot of the mountain, to the left of this spot, are the remains of the stadium. Between the .stadium and the temple of Zeus, on the left of the path, are some Hellenic foundations, and two fragments of Doric columns. Near the temple are the ruins of a small church, which contains some Doric fragments. (Leake, jl/orea, vol. iii. p. 327, seq. ; Curtius, Pe- loponnesos, vol. ii. p. 505, seq.) For an account of the Nemean festival, see Diet, of Antiq. s. v. NEIIENTURI. one of the several Alpine peoples enumerated by Pliny (iii. c. 20) among the names inscribed on the Trophy of the Alps. Their position is unknown. [G. L.] NE'MESA, a river of Gallia mentioned by Au- sonius (Afosella, v. 353), is the Nims, which joins the Pronaea (^Prtim). The united streams flow into the Sura (Sow), and the Sura into the Mo- sella. [G. L.] NEMETACmi or NEMETOCENNA (Arras), the chief town of the Atrebates, a Belgic people. Caesar (B. G. viii. 46) spent a winter at Nemetocenna at the close of his Gallic campaigns. In the inscrip- tion of Tonc/ern there is a route from Castellum (Cassel) to Nemetacum, which is the same place as VOL. II. NEMETOCENNA. 417 Nemetocenna. The distance from Cassd throntrh Bethune to Arras is 43 ]. P. The distance ac- cording to the Antonine Itin. from Cassel through Minariacum [Minariacum] is 55 M. P. There is also a route from Taruenna {Th&rouenne) of 33 M. P. to Nemetacum. There is no place where these roads can meet except Arras. In the Greek texts of Ptolemy (ii. 9. § 7) the capital of tlie Atrebates is Origiacum i^OpiyiaKov') ; but it is said that the Palatine ]IS. has IMetacon, and all the early editions of Ptolemy have Metacum. It seems possible, then, that Ptolemy's Jletacum represents Nemetacum. But Ptolemy incorrectly places the Atrebates on the Seine. ; he also places part of their territoiy on the sea-coast, which may be true. Ori- giacum is supposed to be Orchies, between Tournai and Douai. The town Nemetacum afterwai-ds took the name of the people Atrebates or Atrebatii, and the name was finally corrupted mio Arras. [Atke- BATES,] The traces of the Roman roads from Arras to Therouenne and to Camhrai are .said to exist. It is also said that some remains of a temple of -Tupiter have been discovered at Arras, on the riace du Cloitre; and that there was a temple of Isis on the site of the Hotel-Dieu. (D'Anville, Notice, (f-c. , Walckenaer, Geog. fc. vol. i. p. 431.) [G. L ] NEMETATAE. [Gallaecia, Vol. L p. 933. a.] NEJIE'TES (Nffj.riTai). This name first appears in Caesar (B. G. i. 51), who speaks of the Nemetes as one of the Germanic tribes in the anny of Ario- vistus. In another passage (B. G. vi. 2.5) he de- scribes the Hercynia Silva as commencing on the west at the borders of the Helvetii, the Nemetes, and the R-auraci ; and as he does not mention the Nemetes as one of the nations on the left bank of the Rhine (B. G. iv. 10), we may probably infer that in his time they were on the east or German side of the Rhine. The Vangiones and Nemetes were afterwards transplanted to the west side of the Rhine. (Tac. Germ. c. 28.) Ptolemy makes No- viomagus {Speyei') the capital of the Nemetes, but he incoiTectly places them north of the Vangiones. whose capital was Borbetomagus {Worms). Pliny (iv. 17) mentions the Nemetes, Tribocci, and Van- giones in this order ; but Tacitus mentions them just in the inverse order, Vangiones, Tribocci and Nemetes. From none of these writers could we determine the relative positions of these peoples ; but the fact that Noviomagus (Noio7ia7os) is men- tioned by Ptolemy as the chief town of the Nemetes, and that Noviomagus is proved to be Spei/er by the Itineraries along the west bank of the Rhine, deter- mine the position of the Nemetes. In Ammianns Marcellinus (xv. 11) and the Not. Imp., Noviomagus appears under the name of the people Nemetes or Nemetae. Ammianus calls it a municipium, by which he probably means a Roman town. In the Notitia of the Gallic pro- vinces, Civit,as Nemetum belongs to Germania Prima. In some later writings the expre.ssion occurs " civitas Nemetum id est Spira." The name of Speyer is from the Speycrbach, which flows into the Rhine at Speyer. (D'Anville, Notice, ffr. ; Walckenaer, Geog. NEMETOBRI'GA (NeMfTogpiya). a town of the Tiburi in Asturia, on the ro.id from Bracara to As- tnrica, now Mendoya, in the district of Tribis. (Ptol. ii. 6. § 37 ; Itin. Ant. p. 428 ; I^kert, vol. ii. pt. l.p. 442.) [T. H. D.l NEMETOCENNA [Nemetacum.] E E
 * 1) e. vol. ii. p. 277.) [G.L.]