=Nine Gods= (_The_) of the Etruscans: Juno, Minerva, and Tin´ia (_the three chief_). The other six were Vulcan, Mars, Saturn, Herculês, Summa´nus, and Vedius. (See NOVENSILES.) Lars Por´sĕna of Clusium By the nine gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the nine gods he swore it, And named a trysting day ... To summon his array. Lord Macaulay, _Lays of Ancient Rome_ (“Horatius,” i., 1842). =Nine Orders of Angels= (_The_): (1) Seraphim, (2) Cherubim (_in the first circle_); (3) Thrones, (4) Dominions (_in the second circle_); (5) Virtues, (6) Powers, (7) Principalities, (8) Archangels, (9) Angels (_in the third circle_). In heaven above The effulgent bands in triple circles move. Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_, xi. 13 (1575). Novem vero angelorum ordines dicimus; ... scimus (1) Angelos, (2) Archangelos, (3) Virtues, (4) Potestates, (5) Principatus, (6) Dominationes, (7) Thronos, (8) Cherubim, (9) Seraphim.--Gregory, _Homily_, 34 (A.D. 381). =Nine Worthies= (_The_). Three were _pagans_: Hector, Alexander, and Julius Cæsar. Three were _Jews_: Joshua, David, and Judas Maccabæus. Three were _Christians_: Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Bouillon. _Nine.[TN-38] Worthies_ (privy councillors to William III.). Four were _Whigs_: Devonshire, Dorset, Monmouth, and Edward Russell. Five were _Tories_: Caermarthen, Pembroke, Nottingham, Marlborough, and Lowther. =Nine Worthies of London= (_The_): Sir William Walworth, Sir Henry Pritchard, Sir William Sevenoke, Sir Thomas White, Sir John Bonham, Christopher Croker, Sir John Hawkwood, Sir Hugh Caverley, and Sir Henry Maleverer. ⁂ The chronicles of these nine worthies are written in prose and verse by Richard Johnson (1592), author of _The Seven Champions of Christendom_. =Nineve= (2 _syl._), the Lady of the Lake, in Arthurian romance. Then the Lady of the Lake, that was always friendly unto King Arthur, understood by her subtle craft that he was like to have been destroyed; and so the Lady of the Lake, that hight Nineve, came into the forest to seek Sir Launcelot du Lake.--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, ii. 57 (1470). ⁂ This name occurs three times in the _Morte d’Arthur_--once as “Nimue,” once as “Nineve,” and once as “Ninive.” Probably “Nimue” (_q.v._) is a clerical error. =Ninon de Lenclos=, a beautiful Parisian, rich, _spirituelle_, and an atheist, who abandoned herself to epicurean indulgence, and preserved her charms to a very advanced age. Ninon de Lenclos renounced marriage, and had numberless lovers. Her house was the rendezvous of all the most illustrious persons of the period, as Molière, St. Evremont, Fontenelle, Voltaire, and so on (1615-1705). =Niobe= [_Ne´.oby_], the beau-ideal of grief. After losing her twelve children, she was changed into a stone, which wept continually.