NISIBIS, a city of Mesopotamia, at this day called _Nesibin_. NOLA, a city of Campania, on the north-east of Vesuvius. At this place Augustus breathed his last: it retains its old name to this day. NORICUM, a Roman province, bounded by the Danube on the north, by the _Alpes Noricæ_ on the south, by Pannonia on the east, and Vindelicia on the west; now containing a great part of Austria, Tyrol, Bavaria, &c. NOVESIUM, a town of the Ubii in Gallia Belgica; now _Nuys_, on the west side of the Rhine, in the electorate of _Cologne_. NUCERIA, a city of Campania; now _Nocera_. NUMIDIA, a celebrated kingdom of Africa, bordering on Mauritania, and bounded to the north by the Mediterranean; now _Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli_, &c. the eastern part of the kingdom of _Algiers_. Syphax was king of one part, and Masinissa of the other. O. OCRICULUM, a town of Umbria, near the confluence of the Nar and the Tiber; now _Otricoli_, in the duchy of _Spoletto_. ODRYSÆ, a people situated in the western part of Thrace, how a province of European Turkey. OEENSES, a people of Africa, who occupied the country between the two Syrtes on the Mediterranean. Their city was called _Oea_, now _Tripoli_. OPITERGIUM, now _Oderzo_, in the territory of Venice. ORDOVICES, a people who inhabited what we now call _Flintshire, Denbighshire, Carnarvon_, and _Merionethshire_, in North Wales. OSTIA, formerly a town of note, at the mouth of the Tiber (on the south side), whence its name; at this day it lies in ruins. P. PADUS, anciently called _Eridanus_ by the Greeks, famous for the fable of Phæton; it receives several rivers from the Alps and Apennine, and, running from west to east, discharges itself into the Adriatic. It is now called the Po. PAGIDA, a river in Numidia; its modern name is not ascertained. D'Anville thinks it is now called _Fissato_, in the territory of _Tripoli_. PALUS MÆOTIS; see MÆOTIS. PAMPHYLIA, a country of the Hither Asia, bounded by Pisidia to the north, and by the Mediterranean to the south. PANDA, a river of Asia, in the territory of the _Siraci_; not well known. PANDATARIA, an island of the Tuscan Sea, in the Sinus Puteolanus (now _il Golfo di Napoli_), the place of banishment for illustrious exiles, viz. Julia the daughter of Augustus, Agrippina the wife of Germanicus, Octavia the daughter of Claudius, and many others. It is now called _L'lsle Sainte-Marie_, or _Santa Maria_. PANNONIA, an extensive country of Europe, bounded by Mæsia on the east, by Noricum on the west, Dalmatia on the south, and by the Danube to the north; containing part of _Austria_ and _Hungary_. PANNONIAN ALPS. See ALPS. PAPHOS: there were two towns of the name, both on the west side of the island of Cyprus, and dedicated to Venus, who was hence the _Paphian_ and the _Cyprian_ goddess. PARTHIA, a country of the Farther Asia, with Media on the west, Asia on the east, and Hyrcania on the north. PATAVIUM, now _Padua_, in the territory of Venice.