. ict. Caes. 39; xxii. 9, 12.) Like its neighbour andrival, Nicaea, it occupies an important placein the wars against the Turks; it is also me-morable in history as the scene of Hannibalsdeath. It was the birthplace of Arrian. Nicon (Nikcuj), a Tarentine, who put Taren-tnm in the hands of Hannibal, in 212, waskilled when the Romans recovered the city, 209(Liv. xxv. 8, xxvi. 39, xxvii. 16 ; Pol. viii. 26). Nicoma or Niconrum, a town in Scythia onthe Tyras (Dniester), (Strab. p. 306). Nicophon and Nicophron CNiKov, Ni/c
. ict. Caes. 39; xxii. 9, 12.) Like its neighbour andrival, Nicaea, it occupies an important placein the wars against the Turks; it is also me-morable in history as the scene of Hannibalsdeath. It was the birthplace of Arrian. Nicon (Nikcuj), a Tarentine, who put Taren-tnm in the hands of Hannibal, in 212, waskilled when the Romans recovered the city, 209(Liv. xxv. 8, xxvi. 39, xxvii. 16 ; Pol. viii. 26). Nicoma or Niconrum, a town in Scythia onthe Tyras (Dniester), (Strab. p. 306). Nicophon and Nicophron CNiKov, Ni/cd-(ppcav), an Athenian comic poet, a contemporaryof Aristophanes (Suid. ; Athen. p. 126). Nicopolis CNik6ito\is : )s, Nicopo-litanus). 1. iPaleoprevyza, Ru.), a city at theSW. extremity of Epirus, on the point of landwhich forms the N. side of the entrance to theG-ulf of Ambracia, opposite to Actium. It wasbuilt by Augustus in memory of the battle ofActium, and was peopled from Ambracia,Anactorium, and other neighbouring cities, and. NicomcdcB III., King of liithynia, , head of Nicomedes III.; rfr., bauaeqi Eni*ANOYINIKOMHAOY; Zeus with bceptre, holding out wreath :eagle on thunderbolt. Date 214 of Bithynian and Ponticera, which began 297. Therefore date of coin war; at the conclusion of which (84 J Nicomedeswas again reinstated in his kingdom. Hereigned nearly ten years after this second re-storation. Caesar, as a young man, was sent tohiscourt by M. Minucius Thennus, ( i.; Suet. Jul. 2, 49; p. 181, b.) He diedat the beginning of 74, and, having no children,by his will bequeathed his kingdom to theRoman people (App. Mithr. 7-19; Plut. , 24 ; Eutrop. vi. 6). Nicomedia (NiKouTjSeia: NiKo,u7)5f us, ,hin,ju. Izmid or Iznikmid, , a cele-
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