NOE 
the fimplicity of the words, and that of the Ihepherds 
fuppofed to have fung- them in going to render homage to 
the infant Jefus in the manger. 
NO'EL-VAL'LI, j. in botany. See Dalborgia. 
NOE'LI TA'LI. See Antidesma. 
NO'EM. See Cynosurus coracanus. 
NCEOM'AGUS LEXUVIO'RUM, in ancient geogra¬ 
phy, is thought to be the Civitas Lexoviorum of the lower 
age. Now Lijieux, a city in Normandy.—Another of 
the Tricaftini ; a town of Gallia Narbonenfis ; thought 
to be St. Pol. de Trois Chateaux , fix miles to the welt of 
Nyons in Dauphine. 
NOE'SA BAR'ON, an illand in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
near the fouth coaft of Java, about twenty five miles in 
circumference. Lat. 6. 36. S. Ion. nip E. 
NOE'SA CAM'BAZ, or Pu'lo Can'nibaz an illand 
in the Ealtern-Indian Sea, near the fouth coaft of Java ; 
about forty-five miles in circumference. Lat. 7.42. S. Ion. 
109. 22 E. 
NOE'SA COM'BA, a fmall illand in the Eaftern Indian 
Sea. Lat. 5. 20. S. Ion. 117. E. 
NOE'SA LAO'ER, a fmall illand in the Eaftern In¬ 
dian Sea, near the fouth coaft of Ceram. Lat. 3. 34. S. Ion. 
129. 10. E. 
NOE'SA NES'SING, a fmall illand in the Eaftern In¬ 
dian Sea, near the north coaft of Timor. Lat. 8. 9. S. 
Ion. 126. 30. E. 
NOE'SA PIN'NOS, (hoals in the Eaftern Indian Sea. 
Lat. 5.12. S. Ion. 128.2. E. 
NOE'SA SE'RAS, four fmall iflands in the Eaftern 
Indian Sea. Lat. 5. 15. S. Ion. 116.58. E. 
NOE'TUS, after whom his followers were called Noe- 
tians, is claffed by the orthodox fathers among the here¬ 
tics of the third century. Bafnage places him about the 
year 240 ; Fabricius about 245. Epiphanius, in his work 
againft herefies, fays, that he was of Ephefus in Afia; but, 
in his lummary or recapitulation, he fays that he was of 
Smyrna. In his larger work he fays, that he “taught a 
dodtrine not held by the prophets, or apoftles, or the 
church after them. For fuch was his pride, that he 
dared to fay that the Father fuffered ; and, with the like 
arrogance, he faid that he himfelf was Mofes, and that his 
brother was Aaron.” For perlifting in thefe notions he 
was expelled the church, together with thofe who were 
of the fame opinion with him. St. Auguftine afcribes to 
him the notion, “ that Chrift was alfo the Father himfelf 
and the Holy Ghoft;” and in his article of theSabellians, 
he fays, that" they are reckoned to have borrowed their 
opinion from Noetus. Nor do I know any good reafon 
why Epiphanius Ihould make two herefies of them, for 
their opinions feem to be the fame; only Sabellius .was 
better known than Noetus; for very few, at that time, 
knew any thing of the Noetians, but theSabellians were 
often mentioned.” Theodoret fays,that he“ was of Smyrna. 
He revived the herefy which one Epigonus firft publillied, 
and Cleomenes maintained after him. The fum of their 
herefy is this : that there is one God and father, the cre¬ 
ator of all things, not appearing when he thinks fit, ap¬ 
pearing when he pleafeth ; and that the fame is invilible 
and vifible, begotten and unbegotten; utibegotten from 
the beginning, begotten when he pleafed to be born of a 
virgin ; impaffible and immortal, and again pallible and 
mortal: for, when he was impaffible, they fay, lie willingly 
fuffered on the crofs. Him they call both Son and Fa^ 
ther, as occaiion offers.” Upon the whole, the authors 
of the General Biography are of opinion, “ that a com¬ 
panion of the different teftitnonies of ancient writers will 
render it probable, as the judicious Lardner modeftly ex- 
preffes himfelf, that Noetus, and others who agreed with 
"him, believed in one divine perfon only, and denied a 
diftin£t and proper perlonality of the Word and Spirit;” 
or, in other words, that the Word and the Holy Spirit 
were but external denominations given to God in confe- 
quence of different operations; that, as Creator, he is 
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called Father; as Incarnate, Son; and as defcending on 
the apoftles, Holy Ghojl. 
NOE'WE, a town of North America, in the ftate of 
Tenneffee : twenty-one miles fouth of Knoxville. 
NOFUENT'ES, a town: of Spain, in old Caftile: fix 
miles north of Frias. 
NOG, f. [abbreviation of wogg-m.] A little pot. Skin¬ 
ner .—Ale. Grofe. 
Walpole laid a quart of nog on’t, 
He’d either make a hog or dog on’t. Swift's Plot Difcov. 
Nog of a Mill, the little piece of wood, which, rub¬ 
bing againft the hopper, makes the corn fall from it. 
Cotgrave and Sherwood. 
NOGA'LES, a town of Spain, in Eftremadura: twenty 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Badajoz. 
NOGA'R A, a town of Italy, in the department of the 
Benaco: thirteen miles weft of Legnano. 
NOGA'RA, a town of the county of Tyrol: nine 
miles north-ealt of Trent. 
NOGARCOT', a town of Afia, in the country of Ne- 
paul, with a celebrated pagoda : fifty miles north-eaft of 
Catmandu, and feventy-five fouth-weft of Tankia. Lat. 
28. 11. N. Ion. 86. 8.E. 
NOGA'RO, a town of France, in the department of 
the Gers, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Condom : twenty-one miles fouth-weft of Condom ; con¬ 
taining 1559 inhabitants. Lat. 43.45. N. lon.o. 2. E. 
NOGARO'LA (Louis), an Italian man of letters, was 
defeended from an illuftrious family,and born at Verona 
towards the commencement of the lixteenth century. He 
applied with great fuccefs to the ftudy of the Greek lan¬ 
guage; and acquired a high reputation by the various 
Latin verfions of books written in that tongue, which he 
gave to the public. In 1545, he was appointed one of 
three commiffioners to whom was committed the care of 
fupplying Verona with provifions in a time of fcarcity; and 
foon afterwards he was fent to the council of Trent, 
where he gained much applaufebyadifcourfe pronounced 
by him before that aflembly, which was committed to the 
prefs. In 1554, he was one of the ambafladors deputed 
by the city of Verona to compliment that excellent phi- 
lofopherand celebrated llatefman Francis Venieri, on his 
exaltation to the dignity of doge of Venice; on which, 
occaiion Nogarola was made a knight of that republic. 
After his return to his native city, in the year 1555, he 
was appointed prelident of the juril'diftion over the work¬ 
people in the lilk-manufaftories. He died at Verona, in* 
the year 1559. In the year 1532, he publilhedat Verona, 
in quarto, a Latin tranllation of a work attributed to St. 
John Damafcenus, which had appeared in Greek during 
the preceding year, on the fubjeft “ De iis qui in fideni 
dormierunt.” In 1549, he publillied at Venice, “ Apof- 
tolicae Inftitutiones, in parvum libellum colleftas,” 4to. 
to which he annexed his dilcourfe delivered before the 
council of Trent. In 1552, he printed at the fame place, 
in quarto, a Latin treatife relating to the periodical in- 
creafe of the Nile, from a fcarce work printed at Milan in 
1526, in quarto, under the title of “Timotheus, five de 
Nilo,” &c. This work was followed by “Platonicae Plu- 
tarchi Quasftiones in Latinum verfiae, & Annotationibus 
illuftratae,” printed at Venice in 1552, 4to. Hetranfiated 
the work of Ocellus Lucanus “ De univerfa Natura ;” 
which made its appearance at Venice in 1559; and was 
reprinted at Heidelberg in 1598, and at Cambridge in 
1671. A new tranllation of this work was printed at Bo¬ 
logna in 1646, by Charles Emmanuel Vizzani, in which 
he has inferred the learned notes of Nogarola. Our au¬ 
thor alfo publilhed a Latin “ Letter to Adam Fumano, 
Canon of Verona, on the Perfons of illuftrious Italian 
Families who have written in Greek;” which is given in 
the Venice edition of the work of Ocellus, in the Opuf- 
cula Mythologica, See. publilhed at Cambridge in 1671, 
and in the Supplementa et Obfervationes ad Voflium de 
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