Nicolaus
- a Peripatetic philosopher from Damascus, a friend of Augustus; hence, Nīcolāus, a, um, adj., of Nicolaus: dactyli Nicolai, a kind of dates of a larger size than ordinary, Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 45; Edict. Diocl. p. 18.
sancte ~e, tibi committo orationem meam
a Nicholao papa Rome sacratus
monachis sancti ~ai Exon’
mellifluos palmeti dactilos et mulsum nectaris ~um
cum palmeti dactilis quos ~os vocant
~um idem quod dactylum
palmeti palmbearwes; dactulus,pomis; ~um, alius nomen ejus; ‥ ~ospalmæppla
†nicalalbum [l. nicolaum album ],milisc æppel
(Νικόλαος). (1) Called Damascēnus. A Greek historian of Damascus. At the suggestion of the Jewish king, Herod the Great, whose intimate friend he was, and who had recommended him to Augustus (B.C. 6), he wrote an autobiography, of which fragments remain; a comprehensive history of the world down to his own times in 144 books, which is partly preserved in fragments exhibiting an agreeable style. A portion of his panegyrical biography of Augustus has come down to us. The remains of Nicolaüs are edited by Dindorf in the Hist. Graeci (1870). See Steinmetz, Herod und Nicolaus (1861).
(2) Called Chalcocondyles, a Byzantine historian of the fifteenth century A.D., who wrote a history of the Empire from 1298 to 1463, including the capture of Constantinople (1453). It is in ten books.
- Hdt. 7.134
- a victim of the vengeance of Talthybius on the Spartans: Hdt. 7.137