NIC 
folely for his fupport to the reétitude of his condu&, and 
the favour of his fovereign, and by neglecting to guard againtt 
what he confidered the petty intrigues of acourt. At firlt 
he was excluded fromthe prefence of his fovereign, and dif- 
daining to hold the higheft office in the kingdom when he had 
loft the Senn of his matter, he voluntarily abdicated his 
way of life, and rere the m oft rigid mortifications. 
The hermitage which he inhabited is thus defcribed by an 
author who vifited the fpot in the beginning of the laft cen- 
ury: “a winding ftair-cafe, fo narro Aes one man could 
a fathom 
a rom ice soto, « The 
Chronicl e of and fom ne from the place where 
it was begun a depotted, “ “The pieicle. of the Con- 
vent of Jerufalem.”? This compilation is juitly efteemed as 
vork of great authority. The innocent manner in which 
oe author pafled his time could not prote¢ct him from the per- 
fecution of his enemies. Complaints were urged againft 
him, and new crimes were whl te to ae him Ail more 
obnoxious, till at length he was depofed,* ni 
iftant convent. The principal caufe Miened fo for 
pofition was, that Nicon, having 
8 own integrity, he crtited ina de- 
aul of all Ben and refufed to Connon the matter by 
had 
078 oe 
rae hia poe ee fifteen years. 
permiffion to return to the convent of Jerufalem, that he 
might end his days in that favourite {pot, but the venerable 
old man expired upon the road on his journey, in the fixty- 
Vou. XXV. 
NIC 
lixth year of his age. His remains were tran{ported to that 
convent, and buried with all the ceremonies which are ufual 
at the interment of patriarchs. See Coxe’s Travels, vol. ii. 
ONIA, in Ancient Geography, a town fituated on the 
Euxine fea, at the mouth of the Iiter—Alfo, a town placed 
by Strabe on the northern bank of the Tyr as, or Dnief- 
ter, about 140 ftadia from dea mouth. It was probably the 
fame with the preceding tow 
NICOP, in Geography, a oon of ot Turkey, ia 
45 miles E.S.E. of Nico 
T, a town of Eu oe key: in Bulga- 
ria, fituated on the Danube, faid to have been built by Tra- 
jan, after a viCtory over the Dace. It is the fee of a bifhop, 
f Tulfragan of Sophia, and the refidence of a fgiac 164 
s N.W. of Adrianople. N. lat. 43°51! E.1 24° 8!. 
ge ot Glanich, a town of 'T'urkith Rec balk 
by Pompey; 15 miles S. of Erzerum.—Alfo, a town of 
European Turkey, in Romania, on the Metto ; 3 go miles 
E.N.E. of Saloniki. 
POLIS, or oe in hay Geography, a 
eece, in Epirus; founded by Augultus as a 
monument of the nea obec at Adium over Anton 
liny reprefents it as a i 
of a Roman colony. 
Bulgaria ; 
NICO 
copolis. 
‘Nicovozss, or Nicopolis ad Hamum, a town of Thrace, 
at the foot of mount Hemus, towards the fource of the 
oe bedi ieee by Ptolemy between Prafidium and 
= 
Nic or a town of Lower Meefia, at the mouth of the 
river Teac on the Danube. e 
. See Nicopott. 
a or Nicopols. 
tallia and Topiris. 
POLIS, a town 
dea Accor 
fou w 
the price of the fame games with the to 
n Epirus.—Alfo, a town 
ihe mountains, on ‘the river Pinarus, 
Alfo, atown of Armenia Minor, built by Pompey accord- 
ing to Strabo. Ptolemy places it in the interior of the 
country, at a diftance from the Euphrates, and in the vici- 
nity of the mountains. By way of diftin¢tion from other 
towns, it was called ‘‘ Nicopolis Pompeii.’’——Alfo, atown 
of Bith on or near the Bof horus.—Alfo, a town of 
Afia Minor: 
tilius Varus, for havin 
Jews. i 
lem, It was granted to 800 veteran foldiers by the ate 
Vefpafian, after the ruin of Jerufalem, A.D, The 
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