. aiot), an Africanpeople, situated on the W. side of the Nile, Meroe—that is, in the N. central part ofNubia ; the Nubae were governed by princesof their own, independent of Meroe. By thereign of Diocletian they had advanced north-wards as far as the frontier of Egypt. ( 786, 819 ; Ptol. iv. 7, 80.) Nuceria (Nucerinus). 1. (Nocera), surnamedAlfaterna. probably from an Oscan tribe ofwhich Nuceria was the chief town, a town inCampania on the Sarnus (Sarno), and on theVia Appia, SE. of Nola, and nine (Roman). Coin of Nuce
. aiot), an Africanpeople, situated on the W. side of the Nile, Meroe—that is, in the N. central part ofNubia ; the Nubae were governed by princesof their own, independent of Meroe. By thereign of Diocletian they had advanced north-wards as far as the frontier of Egypt. ( 786, 819 ; Ptol. iv. 7, 80.) Nuceria (Nucerinus). 1. (Nocera), surnamedAlfaterna. probably from an Oscan tribe ofwhich Nuceria was the chief town, a town inCampania on the Sarnus (Sarno), and on theVia Appia, SE. of Nola, and nine (Roman). Coin of Nuceria Alfaterna In Campania, about *>0 Obv., head with rams horn : name of town In Oscanletters; one of the Dioscuri standing besido hishorse. miles from the coast, was taken by the Romansin the Samnite wars, and was again taken byHannibal after the battle of Cannae, when itwas burnt to the ground (Dind. xix. 65 ; 247; Liv. xxiii. 15, xxvii. 8). It was subse-quently rebuilt, and both Augustus and Neroplanted here colonies of veterans (Tac. ).—2. Surnamed Camellaria (Nocrrn\. atown in the interior of Umbria, on the Via Kla-minia (Strab. p. 2271.—3. (Luzzara), a smalltown in Gallia Oispadana on the Po, NE. ofBrixellum (Ptol. iii. 1, 46).—4. A town of Bruttium, whose coins have a Greek inscrip-tion. Its site is fixed by the modern Nocera. Nuithones, a people of Germany, dwellingon the right bank of the Albis (Elbe), SW. ofthe Saxones, and N. of the Langobardi, in themodern Mecklenburg (Tac. Germ. 40.) Numa, Marcius. 1. A friend of NumaPom
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