Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . connected with the legend of Bacchus having been reared in the thio-hof Zeus. [v] NAGARA. [Marsyabae.] NAGEIKI (Nayeipot or Haviyeipoi, Ptol. vii. 4.§ 9), one of the two most southern tribes of Tapro-bane (Ceylon). They appear to have lived in theimmediate neighbourhood of what Ptolemy calls, andwhat are still, the Elephant Pastures, and to havehad a town called the city of Dionysus (^Aioviicovrr6\ts or &Kpov), which is probably represented nowby the ruins of Kaitregam (Davy, A ccount of Cey-lon, p. 420; Ritter, Erdkunde, vi. p. 22); if theseare not, a
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . connected with the legend of Bacchus having been reared in the thio-hof Zeus. [v] NAGARA. [Marsyabae.] NAGEIKI (Nayeipot or Haviyeipoi, Ptol. vii. 4.§ 9), one of the two most southern tribes of Tapro-bane (Ceylon). They appear to have lived in theimmediate neighbourhood of what Ptolemy calls, andwhat are still, the Elephant Pastures, and to havehad a town called the city of Dionysus (^Aioviicovrr6\ts or &Kpov), which is probably represented nowby the ruins of Kaitregam (Davy, A ccount of Cey-lon, p. 420; Ritter, Erdkunde, vi. p. 22); if theseare not, as some have supposed, the remams of Mor-dulamne. [V.] NAGIDUS (NdytSos. EtLliayiSevs),a, tovm ofCilicia on the coast, said to have been colonised bythe Samians. Stephanus B. mentions an islandnamed Nagidusa, which coiTesponds to a little rockabout 200 feet long, close to the castle of Anamowr.(Strab. siv. p. 670; Mela, i. 13. §5; Scylax, p. 40;Steph. B. s. V.; Beaufort, Karamaiiia, p. 206; Cra-mer, Asi<i Minor, vol. ii. p. COIN OF NAGIDUS. NAGNATA (Nciyi/ara, Ptol. ii. 2. §4, in the oldeditt. Ndyvara), an important town (iroAir €iri-arjixos) on the west coast of Ireland, in the territoryof the Nagnatae (^Nayvarat, Ptol. ii. 2. § 5), pro-bably situated upon Sligo Bay. NAHALAL (NogadA, LXX.), a city of the tribeof Zabulon, mentioned only in Joshua (xix. 15).Eusebius identifies it with a village named Nila(NeiAa), in Batanaea ; but Eeland justly remarks,that this is without the territory of the tribe ofZabulon. (Palaestina, s. v. p. 904.) [G. W.] NAHARVALI, one of the most powerful tribesof the Lygii, in the north-east of Germany. Tacitus(Germ. 43) relates that the country inhabited bythem (probably about the Vistula) contained anancient and much revered grove, presided over by apriest in female attire. It was sacred to twin godscalled Alcis, whom Tacitus identifies with Castorand Pollux. (Latham on Tac. Germ. I. c; Spren-gel, Erhiiter. zu Tac. Germ. p. 140.) [L. S.
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