Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . by Dionysius {Exc. Leg. ), without admitting the existence of a Greekcolony, for which (as already stated) there exists nosufficient authority. (Kramer, ilher den Styl. u. dieHerkunft Griechischen Thongefdsse, pp. 145—159;Abeken, Mittel Italien, pp. 332—339.) Nola is celebrated in ecclesiastical history as thesee of St. Paulinus in the 5th century; and also asthe place where, according to tradition, the use of KOMENTUM, bells was first introduced in churches; whence werederived the names of nola and campana, usuallyapplied to such bells in the mi
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . by Dionysius {Exc. Leg. ), without admitting the existence of a Greekcolony, for which (as already stated) there exists nosufficient authority. (Kramer, ilher den Styl. u. dieHerkunft Griechischen Thongefdsse, pp. 145—159;Abeken, Mittel Italien, pp. 332—339.) Nola is celebrated in ecclesiastical history as thesee of St. Paulinus in the 5th century; and also asthe place where, according to tradition, the use of KOMENTUM, bells was first introduced in churches; whence werederived the names of nola and campana, usuallyapplied to such bells in the middle ages. (Du Cange,Glossar. s. ».) The territory of Nola, in common with all theCanipanian plain, was one of great natural to a well-known anecdote related by AulusGellius (vii. 20), it was originally mentioned withgreat praise by Virgil in the Georgics (ii. 225); butthe people of Nola having given offence to the poet,he afterwards struck out the name of their city, andleft the line as it now stands. [E. H. B]. COIN OF NOLA. NOLIBA or NOBILI, a town of the Oretani inHispaiiia Tarraconensis, probably situated betweenthe Anas and Tagus ; but its site cannot be satis-factorily determined. It is mentioned only by Livy(xxxv. 22). [T. H. D.] NOMADES. [NuMiDiA.] NOMAE (NVai)) a town of Sicily, mentioned onlyby Diodorus (xi. 91) as the place where Ducetiuswas defeated by the Syracusans in n. c. 451. Itssite is wholly uncertain. Some authors identify itwith Noae [Noae] ; but there is no authority forthis. [E. H. B.] NOMENTUM (HwfxevTov : Eth. Nia/u.^iTTuos,Steph. B.; Nomentanus: Mentana), an ancient cityof Latium, situated on the Sabine frontier, about4 miles distant from the Tiber, and 14^ fromRome, by the road which derived from it thename of Via Nomentana. It was included inthe territory of the Sabines, according to the ex-tension given to that district in later times, andhence it is frequently reckoned a Sabine town; butthe authorities for its Latin origin
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