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 448 NOKOSBES. Empire, contained a great many towns of more or less importance, as Boiodukuji, Joviacum, Ovii.aba, Lentia, Lal'reacum, Arelate or Arlate, Namare, Cetium, Bedaium, Juvavum, Viru- MUM, Celeia, Aguntum, Loncium, and Teurnia. An excellent work on Noricuni in the time of the Romans is Muchar, Das Romische Noricum, in two vols. Graetz, 1825; compare also Zeuss, Die Deutschen, p. 240, &c. [L. S.] NOROSBES. [NoKOSsus.] NOROSSI. [NoHOSsus.] NUROSSUS {^opoacov opos. Ptol. vi. 14. §§ 5, 11), a mountain of Scythia intra Imaum^near which were the tribes of Norosbes (NopofT§e7s) Norossi (Nopoiraoi) and Cachagae (Kaxa?"')- I* 'nust be referred to the S. portion of the great meridian chain of the Ural. [E. B. J.] NOSALE'NE (Noo-aATJi/r;), a town of Armenia Minor, on the northern slope of Mount Amanus, in ^ the district called Lavianesine. (Ptol. v. 7. § 10.) [L. S.] NOTI-CORNU (NStov Kfpas, Strab. svi. p. 774; Ptol. iv. 7. § 11), or South Horn, w.as a promontory on the eastern coast of Africa. Ptolemy was the first to name this headland Aro.mata. [W. B. D.] NOTI-CORXU (Ndrot; Kipas, Hanno, ap. Geogr. Graec. Mm. p. 13, ed. Miiller; Ptol. iv. 7. § 6), a promontory on the W. coast of Libya. The Greek version of the voyage of Hanno gives the following statement: — "On the third day after our departure fi-om the Chariot of the Gods (QeoJj' oxvf^a), having sailed by those streams of fire (previously described), we arrived at a bay called the Southern Horn, at the bottom of which Ijiy f.n island like the former, having a lake, and in this lake another island, full of savage people, the greater part of whom were women, whose bodies were hairy, and whoin our interpreters called Go- rillae. Though we pursued the men, we could not seize any of them ; but all fled from us, escaping over the precipices, and defending themselves with stones. Three women were, however, taken ; but they attacked their conductors with their teeth and hands, and could not be prevailed upon to accom- pany us. Having killed them, we flayed them, and brought their skins with us to Carthage. We did not sail further on, our provisions failing us." A similar story is told by Eudosus of Cyzicus, as quoted by Mela(iii. 9; comp. Plin. v. 1.) These fires do not prove volcanic action, as it must be re- collected that the common custom in those countries — as, for instance, among the Mandingos, as reported by Mungo Park — of setting fire at certain seasons to the forests and dry grass, might have given rise to the statements of the Carthaginian navigator. In our own times, the island of Amsterdam was set down as volcanic from the same mistake. (Daubeny, Volcanoes, p. 440.) The " Chariot of the Gods " lias been identified with Sagres; the distance of three days' sail agrees very well with Sherboro, to tlie S. of Sierra Leone, while Hanno's island co- incides with that called Macauley in the charts, the peculiarity of which is, that it has on its S. shore, or sea face, a lake of pure fresh water of consider- able extent, just within high-water mark; and in- side of, and close to it, another still larger, salt. (Journ. Geog. Soc. vol. ii. p. 89.) The Gorillae, no doubt, belonged to the family of the anthropoid apes; the Mandiiigos still call the " Orang-Outan " by the name " Toorilla," which, as Kluge {ap. Miil- ler, I.e.), the latest editor of Hanno, observes, might NOVAE! A. easily assume the form it bears in the Greek text. [E.B.J.] NOTIUM (No'riof &Hpov, Ptol. ii. 2. § 5), the SAV. cape of Ireland, now Missen Head. (Camden, p. 1.336.) [T. H. D.] NOTIUM. [Calyimna]. NOTIUM. [CoLOPHON.J NOVA AUGUSTA (NoouSavyovaTa, or NooCa AvyovcFTa, Ptol. ii. 6. § 56), a town of the Arevaci in Hispania Tarraconensis, the site of which cannot be identified. (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4.) [T. H. D.J NOVAE (NooOa:, Ptol. iii. 10. § 10; called Nogai by Procop. de Aedif. iv. 11. p. 308, and Hierocl. p. 636; and Novensis Civ. by Marcellin. Chron. ad an. 487), a town of Lower Moesia on the Danube, and according to the Itin. Ant. (p. 221) and the Not. Imp. (c. 29), the station of the legio i. Italica. It is identified either with Novograd or Gouraheli. At a later period it obtained the name of Eustesium. (Jornand. Get. 18.) [T. H. D.] NOVANA, a town of Picenum, mentioned only by Pliny (iii. 13. s. 18), who appears to place it in the neighbourhood of Asculum and Cupra. It is probably represented by Monte di Nove, about 8 miles N. of Ascoli. (Cluver, Ital p. 741.) [E.H.B.] NOVANTAE (Noouoirai, Ptol. ii. 3. § 7). a tribe in the SV. of Britannia Barbara, or Cale- donia, occupying Wigtonshire. Their chief towns were Leucopibia and Rerigonium. [T. H. D.] NOVANTARUM PROMONTORIUM (yioovav. rS)v aKpov, Ptol. ii. 3. § 1), the most N. point of the peninsula of the Novantae in Britannia Barbara, now Corslll Point, in Wigtonshire. (Marcian, p. 59, Hudson.) [T. H. D.J NOVANUS, a small river of the Vestini, men- tioned only by Pliny (ii. 103. s. 106), who places it in the territory of Pitinum, and notices it for the peculiarity that it was dry in winter and full of water in summer. This circumstance (evidently arising froni its being fed by the snows of the highest Apennines) seems to identify it with the stream flowing from a source called the Laghetto di Velojo. (RomaneUi, vol. iii. p. 281.) [E. H. B.] NOVA'RIA (Nouapia, Ptol. : Novara), a con- siderable city of Cisalpine Gaul, situated on the high- road from Mediolanum to Vercellae, at the distance of 33 miles from the former city. {Itin. Ant. pp. 344, 350.) It was in the temtory of the Insubres (Ptol. iii. 1. § 33); hut its foundation is ascribed by Pliny to a people whom he calls Vertacomacori, who were of the tribe of the Vocontii, a Gaulish race, according to Pliny, and not, as asserted by Cato, a Ligurian one. (Plin. iii. 17. s. 21.) No mention is found in his- tory of Novaria previous to the Roman conquest; but it seems to have been in the days of the Empire a considerable municipal town. It is reckoned by Tacitus {Hist. i. 70) among the " firmissima Trans- padanae regionis municipia " which declared in favour of Vitellius, A. d. 69 ; and was the native place of the rhetorician C. Albucius Silus, who ex- ercised municipal functions there. (Suet. Bhet. 6.) Its municipal rank is confirmed also by inscriptions (Gruter, Inscr. p. 393. 8, &c.); and we learn from Pliny that its territory was fertile in vines (xvii. 23. s. 35). After the fall of the Western Empire Nova- ria is again mentioned as a fortified town of some im- portance; and it seems to have retained its consider- ation under the Lombard rule. (Procop. 5. C ii. 12; P. Diac. Hist. Lang. vi. 18.) The modern city of Novara is a flourishing place, with about 16,000 inhabitants, but has no ancient remains. [E. H. B.J