Greek and Roman Antiquities

• Nani dwarfs, kept as an amusement in rich Roman houses. According to Gellius, 16.7, 19.13, the
• Nassiterna was some sort of vessel for carrying water. From the description in Festus (s. v.), that i
• Naucraria a subdivision of the inhabitants of Attica in early times, for purposes of taxation as app
• Naumachia was the name given to the representation of a naval battle among the Romans, and also to t
• Nautodicae were judicial authorities in disputes between merchants (ἔμποροι) who carried on traffic b
• Navalia were dry docks where ships were built, or drawn up (subductae) to be repaired or laid up t
• Navarchus was a naval commander whose rank varied in different states. It cannot, for instance, be c
• Navis . Though the earliest efforts of mankind in navigation are pre-historic, yet the character
• Nebris a fawn's skin (from νεβρός, a fawn; see AEGIS), worn originally by hunters and others as a
• Negotiatores signified specially during the later times of the Republic Roman citizens settled in the p
• Negotiorum gestorum actio gestorum actio Negotiorum gestio is the intentional management of another person's affairs
• Nemea was a valley in Argolis, between Kleonae and Phlius. It was the reputed scene of many famo
• Nemeseia undoubtedly the same as the Genesia (γενέσια), was a public festival celebrated at Athens
• Neocori signified originally a temple-attendant; perhaps a temple- sweeper (Hesych. sub voce), whi
• Neptunalia a festival of Neptune, celebrated at Rome (Varr. L. L. 6.19). The day on which it was held
• Nervus a sort of stocks (ξύλον, also ποδοκάκκη, χοῖνιξ), in which criminals were confined, used f
• Nexum The most general meaning of this obscure and much-debated term seems to be any legal trans
• Nobiles NOBILITAS. In the earliest period of Roman history. the Patricians or Patres, who belonged
• Nodus in a special sense, was applied to the following parts of dress:--1. The knot used in tyin
• Nomen name. Greek The Greeks, as is well known, bore only one name (Paus. 7.7.4), and it was one
• Nomenclator For the ordinary nomenclator, see AMBITUS Vol. 1. p. 100 a. There was also a nomenclator c
• Nominatio and NOMINO are the technical words used to denote the first stage in the appointment to th
• Nomismatos diaphoras graphe diaphoras graphe (νομἰσματος διαφορᾶς γραφή) is the name of the public action which might,
• Nomophylaces were certain magistrates or official persons of high authority, whose duty it was to see t
• Nomos . The definition of νόμος in [Dem.] c. Aristog. i. p. 774.16--a definition which has passe
• Nomothetes legislator, is a word which may be applied to any person who causes laws to be enacted (ὁ
• Norma a square, used by carpenters, masons, and other artificers, to make their work rectangular
• Notae in a technical sense means those signs and abbreviations which were used (1) for secret wr
• Notarii shorthand writers, were slaves or freedmen (see preceding article) whom wealthy Romans kep
• Novellae or NOVELLAE CONSTITUTIONES (νεαραὶ διατάξεις) are the disconnected enactments of Roman emp
• Noxalis actio actio Those actions were noxal which were brought on the delict (e. g. theft, assault, dam
• Nuces It seems most convenient to include under this head several Greek and Roman games of skill
• Nudipedalia This name was given to a procession of barefooted matrons, as an obsecratio, in time of gr
• Nudus . These words, besides denoting absolute nakedness, which was to be ἀναμπέχονος καὶ ἀχίτων
• Nummus or NUMUS, money. The history of Greek money being set forth under PONDERA and that of Roma
• Nundinae the market day, a regular division of the Calendar, and hence the market itself. The Roman