NEAPOLIS (anc. geogr.), a city of the Higher Egypt, in the Nomos Panopolitanus, between Thebes to the south, and Panopolis to the north, on the east side of the Nile. Otherwise called Caene.—A second Neapolis of Babylonia, situate near the Euphrates, on the south side.—A third of Campania, an ancient town, and a colony from Cumæ, called at first Parthenope, from the tomb of the sirens of that name, (Velleius, Pliny, Strabo); accounted a Greek city, and a great stickler for Greek usages, (Livy, Tacitus). Its hot baths were in nothing inferior to those of Baie, according to Strabo: at two miles distance from it stands the monument of Virgil, held in religious veneration by learned posterity. The Younger Pliny relates, that Virgil's birthday was more religiously observed by Silus Italicus than his own, especially at Naples, where he resorted to his tomb as to a temple. The city is washed by river Sebethus. Virgil assigns the nymph Sebethis to preside over the stream. Now Naples, capital of the kingdom of that name; E. Long. 15. 12. N. Lat. 41. 6.—A fourth, Neapolis of Caria, near the Mender, (Ptolemy).—A fifth, an inland town of Cyrenaica, situate between Ptolemais and Artinoe, (Ptolemy);
Neat lemy); and to be distinguished from the Cænopolis, or Neapolis, on the east border of the same province, (id.).—A sixth, of Ionia, (Strabo); which belonged first to the Ephesians, but afterwards to the Samians, who exchanged Marathefium, a more distant city, for a nearer.—A seventh, Neapolis of Macedonia Adjæcta, situate at the distance of 12 miles to the east of Philippi, (Antonine).—An eighth, Neapolis of Pifidia, on the borders of Galatia, situate between Amblada and Pappa, (Ptolemy).—A ninth, of Samaria, the ancient Sichem, which see; so called upon its restoration by the Romans, (Coin, Pliny, Josephus).—A tenth, of Sardinia, situate on the south-west side of the island, 30 miles to the north of Metalla: now called Neapoli.—An eleventh, of the Regio Syrtica, called also Leptis.—A twelfth, of Zeugitana on the Mediterranean, to the east of Clypea, and south of the Promontorium Mercurii.
NEAT or NET Weight, the weight of a commodity alone, clear of the cask, bag, case, or even filth. See NET.