Nature, influence of, 3; origin of, 7; as a synonym for God, 92; advantage of the study of, 113, 265; finds no task hard, 144, 154; inadequate conceptions of, 228; study of, the highest pursuit, 230; power of variation in, 301; inexhaustibility of, 306; still most imperfectly known, 306. Naval wars denounced, 213. Nebaioth, 208. An Arabian people, put for East in general. Latin form is Nabataei. Neptune (Earthshaker), 255. ^_a_ Nero Caesar, 25, 235, 290, 294; probably referred to, though not named, 90 (last two sentences). Nicopolis, 259. City in W. of Greece at entrance to Ambracian Gulf. The word means “city of victory,” something like our oft-recurrent “Victoria.” Nile, unusual character of, 114, 135, 166; physiological effect of water of, 140; rise of, 141, 167, 169, 172; course of, 168, 170, 233; cataracts of, 168; mode of descent of, 169; delta of, 170, 171; canalisation of, 170; deposit of, 170, 258; inundation of, 171; supposed underground supply of, 235; Nero’s expedition to the, 235; transport of sediment by, 258. Nonacris, 137. Town in Arcadia. Notus (Wind), 209. Nuceria, 221. Town in Campania. Ocean, 6 (2), 112, 119, 135, 143, 153, 155, 231, 254 (2), 266. ^_a_ Oenopides (of Chios), 175. Mathematician and astronomer, probably contemporary of Anaxagoras, fifth century B.C. Olympic, 142 (2). Olympia was in Elis. Olympus, 257. High mountain in Thessaly, Northern Greece. Omens, arranged by Providence, 80; from lightning, 82. Organs (hydraulic), 56. Ossa, 257. Mountain in Thessaly, Northern Greece. Ostia, 41. Town at mouth of Tiber; port of Rome. ^_a_ Ovid, 114, 133, 148, 165, 168. Latin poet, 43 B.C.-18. Parhelia, 35. Pamphylia, 211. District on S. of Asia Minor. ^_a_ Panaetius, 304. Stoic philosopher of Rhodes, friend of Laelius and the younger Scipio Africanus; died 111 B.C. Paphos, 259. Town on W. of Cyprus. Parium, 22. Town in Mysia on N.W. of Asia Minor. Parthians, 5, 215. Paterculus, 303. His consulship is said to have been in the year 60. Patras, 257. Town at entrance of Gulf of Corinth. Paulus, 9. L. Aemilius P., consul 181 and 168 B.C. Peacock, analogy from colours of, 25. Peloponnesian (War), 256, 258. Lasted 431–404 B.C. between Athens and Sparta. Peneüs, 138, 257. Great river draining the plain of Thessaly and flowing through vale of Tempe between Olympus and Ossa; now called Salambria. Perseus, 9. Last king of Macedonia, 178–168 B.C. Persia, 208, 215. Persians, 254. Pestilential vapours emitted from the ground, 260, 261. Pharos, 258. Island off Alexandria with famous lighthouse, united to mainland by Alexander the Great. Phasis, 174. River of Colchis at E. of Black Sea.