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Nicander of
Colophon (Ancient Gr****: Νίκανδρος ὁ Κολοφώνιος, romanized: Níkandros ho Kolophṓnios; fl. 2nd
century BC) was a Gr**** poet, physician, and...
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Nicander (Gr****: Νίκανδρος,
reigned from c. 750 to c. 725 BC) was king of
Sparta and a
member of the
Eurypontid dynasty.
Sparta was a diarchy,
having two...
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Xenosoma nicander is a moth in the
subfamily Arctiinae first described by
Herbert Druce in 1886. It is
found in
Costa Rica and Panama. Savela,
Markku (ed...
- Θηριακά) is the
longest surviving work of the 2nd-century BC Gr**** poet
Nicander of Colophon. It is a 958-line
hexameter poem
describing the
nature of venomous...
- the
Stadion race in the 193rd
Olympiad (8 BC).
Nicander (Ancient Gr****: Νίκανδρος), also
known as
Nicander of
Thyateira (Ancient Gr****: Νίκανδρος ὁ Θυατειρηνός)...
- giant. Steph**** of
Byzantium attributed the
story to some lost work by
Nicander,
where he
apparently described Poseidon hurling two
blocks with his hands...
- century. Le
Quien opens his list of the
bishops of this city with St.
Nicander,
martyred under Domitian in 95, who,
according to the Gr**** Menologion...
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Pinchbeck Composer(s)
Jessica Curry Engine HPL
Engine 2 Platform(s)...
- nī́kē 'victory' and λᾱός, lāós 'people'
Related names Miklós, Mikalai,
Nicander, Nicanor, Niccolò, Nickolas, Nico, Nicol, Nicola, Nicolaas, Nicolae, Nicolao...
- In a
rarer version,
surviving in the
scholia of an
unnamed scholiast on
Nicander,
whose works heavily influenced Ovid,
Arachne is
placed in
Attica instead...
