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 INDEX 485 Nicias (coni.) — ambush the Syraciisaii reinforce- ments, ib. 32 ; left in the Athen- ian Unes while Demosthenes attacks Epipolae. ib. 43 med.; swayed by information from Si'racuse and fear of public opinion at home, he refuses to abandon the siege, ib. 48. 49 ; yields at last, ib. 50 med. ; but, an eclipse of the moon occurring, decides in accordance with the general feeling to remain thrice nine da3's. ib. 50 fin. ; exhorts the army before the last battle, ib. 61-64 ; addresses the trier- archs, ib. 69 ; encourages his re- treating soldiers, ib. 76, 77 ; commands one division in the retreat, ib. 78 init. foil. ; over- taken and compelled to sur- render, ib. 83-85 ; put to death by the Syracusans, ib. 86. Nicolaus, a Lacedaemonian am- bassador to Persia, ii. 67 init. Nicomachus, a Phocian, betrays to the Lacedaemonians the Athen- ian plan for the conquest of Boeotia, iv. 89 init. Nicomedes, a Lacedaemonian, general in place of King Pleis- toanax, i. 107 init. Nicon, a Boeotian, commands the reinforcements to Syracuse, vii. 19 med. Niconidas, a Thessalian, escorts Brasidas through Thessaly, iv. 78 init. Nicostratus, an Athenian general, sails to Corcyra ; his humane conduct there, iii. 75; colleague of Nicias, iv. 53 init. ; assists in the capture of Cythera. ib. 53, 54; of Mende, «6. 129, 130; and in the blockade of Scione, ib. 131 ; swears to the one year's Truce, ib. 119 fin. ; brings with Laches an expedition to Argos, v. 61 init. ; falls at Mantinea, ib. 74 fin. Nightingale, called by the poets the ' Daulian B!rd,' ii. 29 init. Nile, i. 104 med., no fin. Nine Ways, old name of Amphi- polis, i. 100 fin., iv. 102 med. Nisaea. the harbour of Megara, ii. 93 init., iv. 66 fin ; connected with the citj- by the Long Walls, i. 103 fin. ; occupied by the Athenians, ib., ib. 114 init. ; re- stored under the thirty j'ears' Peace, ib. 115 init. ; Cleon de- mands its surrender with other places after the blockade of Sphacleria, iv. 21 fin.; garrisoned by Peloponnesian forces, ib. 66 fin. ; captured by the Athenians, ib. 69 ; Brasidas arrives too late to save it, ib. 70 fin. ; cavalry engagement before Nisaea, i'>. 72 fin. ; the Athenians at Nisaea re- fuse battle with Brasidas, ib. 73 [cp. Brasidas' account, ib. 85 fin., 108 med.] ; not given up under the treaty, v. 1 7 med. Nisus, Temple of, at Nisaea, iv. 118, iii. Nomothetae, appointed at Athens after the deposition of the Four Hundred, viii. 97 med. Notium, seditions there, Paches gains the city by a trick, iii. 34 ; handed over to the Colophonians by the Athenians, ib. fin. Nymphodorus, of Abdera, nego- tiates an alliance between his brother-in-law Sitalces and the Athenians, ii. 29. Obols, Aeginetan, v. 47, iv. Ocytus, father of Aeneas, a Corin- thian, iv. 119 med. Odomantians, a people in Thrace, ii. loi med. ; Polles, their king, V. 6 init. Odrysians, a people in Thrace, their empire founded by Teres,