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 Motius 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 Combesis.