NOM 
were bounded fouthward by the Scenites, oe according 
to Euftathius (in Dionyf. p. 121.) inhabited the difrict 
a and the Euphrates. xvi.) 
oufes. 
NOMAES, or Nomao, in Geography, a town of Por 
tugal, in the province of Beira; fix miles S.E. of St. Joao 
de eae 
O-MAN’S Lanp, a {mall ifland near the Pena 
an. S.W. of Martha’s Vineyard, about three miles long, 
and two piaay belonging to Duke’s county, Maffachufetts. 
ae de eT gi. 
s Land, in Sea Language, is a {pace ay alee 
lie in referve to fupply the place 
e {pace called no man’s land is ufed to contain any 
arboar 
he waifte or forecaftle ; but being fituated in the middle, 
partakes equally of lon thofe places. Falconer. 
_NOMANCY, c mpounded of nomen, name, and ahi 
ini ates oO 
any, or, ag it 
pe eh feems to be nothing elfe but the cabbulittic 
gematria. 
hearer in Antiquity, the governor or commander 
of a nome, or no 
t was actly sari into feveral regions, or 
gyP 
quarters, called nomes, from the Gree sae taken in the 
fenfe of a divifion aa the officer who had the adminiftra- 
tion of eac me, or nomos, from the "hing was called 
of a bay of the fame name; deftroyed 
founded” by the Indians of Darien, afterwards rebuilt, and 
occupied by its inhabitants until the year 1584, whe 
Philip IL. ordered them to be removed to Porto Bello, as a 
place better adapted to the commerce of the aaa ey 3 30 
miles E. of Porto Bello, N. lat. 9° 36'. Paes 
—Alfo, a large and populous town of Mexico, the 
coaft, near the Pacific ocean, in the province of Zacatecas, 
cc ime of inha- 
Seen on account o s N.W. of 
“Zacatec N. lat. ong. 104 —Alfo, a 
river of Pern, sailed « “ « Tambopala . obec runs into the 
Pacific ocean, S. lat. 17° 10!. 
Nomsre de Jefus, a on of South America, in the pro- 
vince of Quite s es N.W. of as Jofef de Huates. 
NomBrE de Mia: a town of South America, in the 
province el Quito; eight miles NE. of St. Jofef de 
Fluates. 5 
fas] 
NOM 
Nompre de Hios, a town of Mexico, in the province of 
New Bifcay; 120 miles N. of Par ral. 
and the lower ‘the 
NO : Maui in Algebra, denotes (any quant 
witha re pene or added to it, whereby it is eer te! 
with fome other erp aa which the whole becomes 
a binomial, tr Sent 
hus a + bis a inomnial, whole 
aand 4, anda + 
and ¢, &c. 
_ Nowe, among the ancient Egyptians, a —, or pro- 
hich th ole e 
names, Or nomes, are 
D+teca nomial whofe names are a, 5, 
mal to be eaten 
where it was worfhi oa. Hence, as 
every province was intoxicated with its own particular form, 
and object of worfhip, it entertained the higheft contempt: 
for that of its neighbours, and took a pleafure in profaning 
the animal, which among them had divine honours paid it. 
This religious oppofition had the defired effe@ ; a all 
mutual confidence being thereby cut off, there — no 
more ae _ the government. Mem: Acad. 
Infcrip. vol. xiii. 
ME, in the ee Greek Mufic. Every melody peau 
mined por inviolable rules, was called by the Greeks a n 
ora he nomes acquired their denomination, rf, ried 
aaa ele as the /Eolian nome, the Lydian nome ; 
dly, b kind of rhythm or meafure, as the Orthian 
nome, the ylic nome, the Trochaic nome; 3dly, by 
the name jleracian nome, the 
olymnetan = 4thly, fi 
me, Com 
other: there were others that were i tas of which Sa- 
ere or Clonas, was - author ; the Dorian, Phrygian, 
and Lydian See a, and Mons.) The nomes and 
dithy ambi were eailly hymns fung in honour of the gods. 
The nomes e for Apollo, as the dithyrambics were for 
Bacchus. Now the literal meaning of smos, nome, being a 
law or rule, it fhould feem as if, after the invention of mu. 
fical characters, the nomes were the firft m 
that were written down, and rendered permanent an 
alterable; whereas, before that alata ahi mutt have 
been played extempore, or by memory : 23 Te erpander, 
the inventor of a mufical notation, is likewife faid to have 
fet the vouor, or daws of Lycurgus, to shea the conjecture 
has both a literal and a figurative foundation. Ariftotle, 
(Prob. xvii. 28.) afks why fuch different ses as /aqws and 
fongs had the fame appellations ? and anfwers the queftion 
himfelf, by faying, that before the knowledge of ae 
laws were fung, in order to their being the better retained in 
memory, If, according to Jofephus, the word saxo; is not 
to be found in all the writings of Homer, it muift, confe- 
quently, be a more modern term. The word, however: does 
occur in Homer’s Hymn to Apollo, v. 20, though not in 
the Iliad or Odyfley. 
NOMEN. See PranomMEN, Name, and AGNOMEN. . 
NOMENCLATOR, or NoMENcULATOR, se the 
Omansy 
