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Nemesis – Nestorius

Nemesis

in Greek mythology, one of the infernal deities, daughter of Nox.

She was the goddess of vengeance, always prepared to punish impiety, and at the same time liberally to reward the good and virtuous.

Nemi

LAKE OF, an extinct crater, 20 miles S. of Rome, accounted for its beauty the gem of the Alban Mountains.

There was here a famous temple of Diana, portions of which have been recently excavated.

Nennius

the reputed author of a "History of the Britons," evidently of Cymric origin. It gives the mythical account of the origin of the Britons, the Roman occupation, the settlement of the Saxons, and closes with the 12 victorious battles of King Arthur. The writer has preserved valuable fragments of earlier treatises which have been lost.

Neon

a primary element existing in air. It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers, of England, who, in July, 1898, separated separ it from argon while experimenting with liquid air. Neon is a gas having a density of 14.67, and like argor it is characterized by inertness.

Nepheline

or NEPHELITE, a mineral species included by Dana in his unisilicate sub-division of anhydrous silicates. It has a vitreous or greasy luster. Crystallization, hexagonal, usually occurring in six or twelve-sided prisms, with plane or modified summits.

Nereids

in classical mythology, sea nymphs, daughters of Nereus and Doris, and constant attendants on Poseidon or Neptune. They are represented as riding on sea-horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.

Nereis

sea-centipede; the typical genus of the family Nereidæ. The species are numerous and widely distributed.

Nereocystis

a genus of Fucaceæ family Laminardiæ. The stem, which is filiform, is many fathoms long.

Nervii

a powerful and warlike people of the ancient Gallia Belgica, whose territory stretched from the Sambre to the ocean, not subdued by Cæsar without an obstinate resistance.

Nestor

in Greek legend, son of Neleus and Chloris. His father and 11 brothers were killed by Hercules; but the conqueror spared Nestor's life and placed him on the throne of Pylos. As ing of Pylos and Messenia, he led his subjects to the Trojan war, where he distinguished himself the the Grecian chiefs by eloquence, wisdom, and justice.

Nestor

a Russian historian; born about 1056, was a monk at Kiev, and wrote a chronicle in his vernacular tongue, which has been the foundation of Slavonic history. He died after 1116.

Nestorius

Bishop of Constantinople (428-431). He incurred the charge of heresy (see NESTORIANISM).

Cyril of Alexandria, at the Council of tion of the doctrine taught by Nestorius and the deposition of the patriarch. He was banished to the deserts of Egypt, where he suffered much and died in 440.