Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ected fromthe beards of goats, in the manner described byHerodotus (iii. 112). Emery is .also found there,particularly in the southern part of the island, andforms an article of export. The of Naxoswere celebrated in antiquity. (Athen. xii. p. 540.) One of the most remarkable curiosities in theisland is an unfinished colossal figure, still lying inan ancient marble quarry near the northern extremityof the island. It is about 34 feet in length, andhas always been called by the inhabitants a figureof Apollo. On the side of the hill, at the distanc
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ected fromthe beards of goats, in the manner described byHerodotus (iii. 112). Emery is .also found there,particularly in the southern part of the island, andforms an article of export. The of Naxoswere celebrated in antiquity. (Athen. xii. p. 540.) One of the most remarkable curiosities in theisland is an unfinished colossal figure, still lying inan ancient marble quarry near the northern extremityof the island. It is about 34 feet in length, andhas always been called by the inhabitants a figureof Apollo. On the side of the hill, at the distanceof five minutes from the statue, we still find the in-scription, opos x^p^ov lepov AttSAAwvos. Ross con-jectures that the statue may have been intended asa dedicatory offering to Delos. (Thevenot, Travels,p. 103, PjUgl. transl.; Tournefort, Voyage, vol. 163, Engl, transl. ; Leake, Northern Greece,vol. iii. p. 93; Ross, Reisen auf den Griech. Inseln,vol. i. p. 22, seq.; Grliter, De Naxo Insula, Curtius, Naxos, Berl. 1846.). COIN OF THE ISLAND OF NAXOS. NAXUANA (Na|oi;a!/a, Ptol. v. 13. § 12), a city on the N. bank of the river Araxes, now Nach-dgcvan, a city of some importance in Armenian his- NAZAEETH. tory, and connected, by tradition, with the first ha-bitation of Noah, and the descent of the patriarchfrom the ark. (Comp. Joseph. Antig. i. 35 ; , Mim. siir V Armenie, vol. i. p. 131; Ritter,Erdkunde, vol. x. p. 363 ; Ciiesney, Expecl. p. 145.) [E. B. J.] NAZARETH (Nafapee : Eth. T^aCaprjids, Na-(oipalos), a city of Galilee, celebrated in the NewTestament as the residence of our Lord for thirtyyears, before He commenced His public ministry(S. 3Iark, i. 9; S. Luke, iv. 16, 29), from whichcircumstance he was called a Nazarene. (5. Mark,i. 24, xiv. 67; S. Matt. xxvi. 71.) It was appa-rently in bad repute, even among the despised Gali-leans themselves. (S. John, i. 46.) It was visited byourLord immediately on His enterinffonHis ministry,whe
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