NIC 
Antigonia, by Antigonus, se of ae 3 but Lyfimachus 
’ afterwards called it Nicza, ment to his wife, the 
of Liguria. It wasa dies from Marfeilles, aad on the 
fea-coaft, about a th of the Var. It 
.C. The ancient Marfilians gave 
hich fignified victory, in commemo- 
ration of the advantages which they had gained in this place 
ever the Ligurians. From Strabo we learn that as before 
his time Nice had a number of veffels, an arfenal, and man 
warlike machines, of which the Romans availed themfelves 
queft of Provence. Jn the time of this geographer, 
the Marfilians were {till mafters of it, but th id not 
the authors of the low 
Its {plendour and its commerce vanifhed 
town of India, on he s fide the Ganges, on the left bank of 
the Hydafpes, over-againft Bucephala, founded by Alexan- 
obtai er Porus, upon the 
— t ifland of Cor- 
fica, founded by the Etrurians after th ained the 
empire of the fea, and taken poffeffion of the ifles adjacent to 
truria. 
NICAISE, Crauns, in Biography, a man of letters, 
He embraced the ecclefiaftical 
ee niver- 
erary purfuits, and c 
“ = learned of different cia 
atio on of that kind, that he was regarde ed‘as 
3 
have been ae with aoe aufe: “De Nanee Pantheo ;’ 
“A Difcourfe on the Form and Figure of the Syrens ;”’ “ a 
Differtation on the Schools of Athens and Parnaflus,” which 
were two of Raphael's pictures. 
 eeciape or NicAMA, Nega-patnam, in Ancient Geo- 
raphy, wn to which Ptolemy gave the title of metro- 
polis, ‘ituated near the foutherna mouth of the river Cha- 
berisy on the coaft of the peninfula of India, on this fide of 
the oe north of the ‘* promontorium callig:e:m 
ICANDER, in Biography, a celebrated Greek phy. 
mer Sponsreabity and poet, refpeéting whofe birth-place, 
the era in which he flourifhed, there is a confiderable 
cane ae inion. Suidas informs us, that he was the 
fon of  Xenoohon, of Colophon, a town of Ionia; although 
he — that other writers confider lim as a native of 
oli have @, ap haay thp teftimo y. of Nicander 
Ionia, Gea Cc 
age in which he lived, authors are not more a 
sommonly fuppofed to haye ‘Gone aboue the x6o0th 
NIC 
olympiad, and 140 years before Chrift, in the reign of 
Attalus I., king of Pergamus; while others are of opinion, 
that he was in the zenith of his reputation in the re reign of 
the laft king of that name, Attalus Philometor, and in that 
of Ariftonicus. ' According to this account have 
He was the author of many wor ut the two following 
alone remain, namely, the pean en tl Theriaca,”? and 
« Alexipharmaca.”” Int r, he defcribes the effects 
of the bites of venomous animals ; in the latter, he 
treats of their antidotes. co) e works which are 
lot, were fimilar poetical pieces, entitle d ‘¢ Ophiaca,’”’ 
which related to ferpents, and “ H thia,’? which was a 
colle€&tion of remedies. 
places, fome poetical works o 
of agriculture, which 
Befides thefe works, he is faid to = compofed five books 
of ‘* Metamorphofes,’’ which were the ara a of thofe 
of Ovid, and were clofely c epee in thofe of Antonius Li- 
beralis; and to have written — biltrieal pieces te 
cially “© A Hifltory of Colophon,’’ a work entitled * 
lics,”” and a general hiltory of Euro e; fo ae his various 
ited the eulogies iba r 
paffed upon him i in feveral epigrams, in the Grit b 
“ Anthologia A great number ‘of editions 7 the 
poems firft eentionel. in Creek, and in Latin verfions, fave 
been printed, at different See and places. 
Hitt. Hutchinfon, Med. 
NICANDRA, in Botany, 
of Nicander, of Golo hon, 
of Apollo, who hved aoe th alus. 
Georgics are greatl commended icero, and ar 
ter{perfed with various botanical remarks, aes t 
is for the moit part loft. - his two poems w _ 
ae Ai and 
mack ufe. Thefe ort renee 
various editions during the Fitch vias - Hall er notices 
a very beautiful manufcript of - n 
Schreb, 283. Wiitd. Sp. Pl. v. 
v.3. (Potalia; Aubl Gue v. 1. 394. Jul. 143. 
marck [lluftr. t. 348. arse and order, Decaubts Mono. 
Nat. Ord. Gentiane, Juff. 
n.Ch. Cal. Peach inenen of one leaf, turbinate, 
thick, essed. cloven into f 
fegments the two e 
inner fma:ler. Cor. of one petal; tube very fhort; lim 
deeply cloven into ten, oblong, imbricated ‘fegments, in- 
curved and rigid at theto e€tary, 
ring, {urrounding the bafe of the germen. 
ten, very fhort, connected with the nectary, cnferted into 
the. receptacle; anthers linear, fquare, acute, ere&, ap- 
proximated. Germen a ovate; ftyle th rt; 
itigma peltate, or bieular, fix-rayed. +. Berry roundith, 
fix-furrowed, three-celled. Seeds aun sae very {mall, an- 
e 
s ‘¢ Georgics. 
Eloy Dia. 
named 2 Schreber in honour 
Calyx turbinate, four-cleft. Corolla of one 
petal, “deeply ten-cleft. Filaments infertcd or the ring o 
the oak Berry fix-furrowed, three-celled, and many- 
amara. Linn. Syft. ed. Gmel. v. 2. 677. Willd. 
(Potalia amara; Aubl. Guian. t. 151.)—Native of exten- 
five forefts in Guiana, flowering in July or Auguft, and 
bearing fruit i: Otober. Root perennial, cody and fibrous. 
Stem fimple, ftraight, hard, woody, knotty, the thicknefs 
of a finger. Leaves oppolite, flalked, entire, fmoo'h, nar- 
w at the bafe, roundifh and pointed at the end, a foot 
and half long, about five inches wide, with a protuberant 
: mid- 
