His life may be said to fall between 655/99 and 730/24

Besides erotic poems, three books of Chronic a were his earliest work, but he seems also to have written a geographical treatise. His other writings show that he was influenced by Varro, for they were directed to the history graphical demora of customs and had a biographical and moral Nemours, Duc de (Prince Louis Charles Philippe Raphaeld'Orléans). Born at Paris, Oct. 26, 1738: died in Hanover County, Jan. 4, 1789. An American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 as delegate to Congre from Virginia. He served in the Revolutionary War, and became governor of Virginia in 1781. Nelson, William. Born at Maysville, Ky., 1825: killed at Louisville, Ky., Sept. 29, 1862. An American general in the Civil War. He entered the navy in 1840, and was promoted lieutenant-commander in 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War he organized camps in Kentucky for mustering Union soldiers. He was made brigadier-general in 1861; commanded the second division of Buell's army at the battle of Shiloh; and afterward took command of Louisville. He was made major general of volunteers in July, 1862. He was shot and in an altercation with General Jefferson C. Davis. Nelson Monument. A Corinthian column of granite, 145 feet high, on a square pedestal, standing in Trafalgar Square, London. It bears a statue of the admiral, 17 feet high, and on the sides of the pedestal are bronze reliefs portraying his chief exploits. Around the column are placed four colo al reposing lions in bronze, by Landseer. Nîmes. Nemausus (ne-ma's us). The Roman name of Nemea (nē'mē-ä). [Gr. mē-). [Gr. Neuéa.] In ancient geography, a valley in Argolis, Greece, 11 miles southwest of Corinth. It is noted as the scene of the Nemean games, and in legend as the haunt of the Nemean lion. Nemean games (nēmē-an or në-mēʼan gāmz). One of the four great national festivals of the ancient Greeks (the others being the Olympian, Pythian, and Isthmian games). These games were celebrated at Nemea in the second and fourth years of each Olympiad, near the temple of the Nemean Zeus, some (Doric) columns of which are still standing. According mythological story, the games were instituted in memory of the death of the young hero Archemorus or Opheltes by the bite of a serpent, as the expedition of "the Seven against Thebes" was pa ing through the place. The victor's garland at the Nemean games was made of parsley. Nemesia nus (nē"me-si-ā'nus), Marcus Aurelius Olympius. Born probably at Carthage: lived at the close of the 3d century. A Roman poet. Fragments of his "Cynegetic a" have been edited by Haupt (1838).