NICETAS, Archominate, a Greek historian of the 13th century, called Coniates, as being born at Chone, or Colossus, in Phrygia. He was employed in several considerable affairs at the court of Constantinople; and when that city was taken by the French in 1204, he withdrew, with a young girl taken from the enemy, to Nice in Bithynia, where he married his captive, and died in 1206. He wrote a History, or Annals, from the death of Alexius Comnenus in the year 1118, to that of Badouin in 1205; of which work we have a Latin translation by Jerome Wolfus, printed at Basil in 1557; and it has been inserted in the body of the Byzantine Historians, printed in France at the Louvre.