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Popu lati on (1890), 5,479. was imprisoned by Rosas. His best-known works are "Noticias de las Provincias Unidas del Rio de la Plata" Nürtingen (nür'ting-en). A town in the Black ricas de la república Argentina" (posthumous, 1857). (1825: French and English editions) and "Noticias his to- Forest circle, Würtemberg, situated on the Nuñez, Rafael. Born in Cart a gena, Sept. 28, 1825: died at Bogotá, Sept. 18, 1894. A Colom- bian statesman. He was secretary of the treasury 1855- 1857, 1861-62, and 1878, senator, and held other important civil offices. From 1865 to 1874 he resided in Europe. In 1875 he was defeated as the liberal candidate for the presidency; having died, he was again elected for the term beginning April, 1884. Under the new constitution of the Republic of Colombia, he became president for 6 years from Dec., 1885, and was reëlected in 1891. Owing to ill health from 1888 he was frequently represented by the vice-president. Nuñez, Vasco. See Balboa , Vasco Nuñez . Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar. See Cabeza de Vaca , Alvar Nuñez . Nuñez de Arce (nön'yath da är'thā), Gaspar, Born at Valladolid, Aug. 6, 1834. A Spanish poet, known as "the Spanish Tenny- lectured before the Spanish Academy in 1878; has been deputy to the Cortes and minister of the colonies in the Sagasta cabinet of 1883-84; and has also been president of the council of state of commerce and agriculture. In 1894 a national ovation was accorded him at Toledo. Among his poems are "Gritos del Combate" ("Battle-cries." 1875), "Ultima lament a cion de Lord Byron" (1879), "El Vértigo Nus (nüs), Eugène. Born at Chalon-sur-Saône, 1816: died at Paris, Jan. 19, 1894. A French dramatic author and journalist. Nusku (nös'kö). A deity of the A yro-Babylonian pantheon, the god of the midday sun. See Nisroch . Nut (nöt). In Egyptian mythology, the mother of Osiris, godde of heaven and consort of Set, god of the earth. She is represented in human form. Nutabes (nö-tä-bās'). An extinct tribe of South American Indians who occupied part of the region included in the present department of Antioquia, Colombia, on the right side of the Cauca, between that river and the Porcé. They were hardly le advanced in civilization than the Chibchas, but were le warlike and had no hereditary chiefs. Their clothing was of cotton, and they were skilled in making small figures of gold. Many of these figures were deposited in their tombs (huacas), and are still found: in 1833 gold to the amount of $18,000 was taken from a single huaca. Nothing is known of their linguistic affinities. left Egypt. It includes part of the history of the Israeli tes during their wanderings. Numenius (nü-me'ni-us). [Gr. Nουμήνιος .] Born at Apamea, Syria: lived in the second half of the 2d century. A Neo-Pythagorean philosopher, forerunner of Neo platonism. His leading principle was the belief that Plato, who formed, as he thought, a sort of connecting bond between Pythagoras and So crates, really preached in a Greek form the revealed doctrines of the Jewish legislator. And he went so far as to say, "What is Plato but Moses talking Attic Greek?" But he applied his Pythagorean principles also to the identification of Egyptian, Persian, and even Brahmin i cal dogmas. And, without mentioning our Saviour by name, he made the Gospels the subjects of philosophical allegories not unlike those which Philo spun from the Pent a teuch. Müller , Hist. of the Lit. of Anc. Greece, [III. 182. ( Donald son .) Numerianus (nū-me-ri-ā'nus), Marcus Aurelius. Roman emperor (conjointly with his brother Car in us) in 283 A. D. He accompanied his father, the emperor Carus, on an expedition against the Persians in 283, while Car in us remained behind as governor of the western provinces. The death of his father during the exhowever, died in while returning tree, camp from East. Arrius Aper, prefect of the pretorians, his father-in-law, was suspected of encompa ing his death, with the intention of making himself emperor. Arrius Aper was stabbed by Diocletian who a umed the purple. Numidia (nu-mid'i-ä). [L. Numidia, Gr. Nov μιδία , from Numidæ , Gr. reflex Νούμιδαι , the inhabitants, prop. Νομάδες , wanderers, nomads.] In ancient geography, a country of northern Africa, corresponding nearly to the modern Algeria. It was bounded by the Mediterranean on the north, the territory of Carthage on the east, the desert on the south, and Mauretania on the west. The Ma yli in the east and the Ma æsyli in the west were united in a king. dom under Masini a. This was dismembered after the defeat of Jugurtha in 106 B. C.; and the eastern part be came a Roman province shortly after the death of its king