NICETAS (David), a Greek historian, a native, as some relate, of Paphlagonia, who lived about the end of the 9th century. He wrote, The life of St Ignatius, patriarch of Constantinople; which was translated into Latin by Frederic Mutius bishop of Termoli: he composed also several panegyrics in honour of the apostles and other saints, which are inserted in the last continuation of the Bibliotheca Patrum by Combefis.