NICÆA, in Ancient Geography, the metropolis of Bithynia; situated on the lake Alcanius, in a large and fertile plain; in compass 16 stadia: first built by Antigonus, the son of Philip, and thence called Antigonea; afterwards completed by Lyfimachus, who called it Nicæa, after his consort the daughter of Antipater. According to Stephanus, it was originally a colony of the Bottinei, a people of Thrace, and called Ascore; and afterwards called Nicæa. Now Nice in Asia the Less*. Famous for the first general council.—A second Nicæa, (Diodorus Siculus), of Corsica.—A third, of the Hither India, (Arrian); situated on the west side of the Hydaspes, opposite to Bucephale, on the east side.—A fourth Nicæa, a town of Liguria, at the Maritime Alps, on the east side of the river Paulon, near its mouth, which runs between the Varus and Nicæa, (Mela). A colony of the Massilians, (Stephanus); the last town of Italy to the west. Now Nicæa or Nice, capital of the county of that name, on the Mediterranean.—A fifth, of Locris, (Strabo); a town near Thermopyle; one of the keys of that pass. It stood on the Sinus Maliacus.
In the Explanation of the Plates of Midwifery on pp. 75 and 76, in some copies, for Plates CCC, CCCI, CCCII, CCCIII, and CCCIV. read Plates CCCXLVI, CCCXLVII, CCCXLVIII, CCCXLIX, and CCCL.
Page 511. col. 1. fide note, for Plate CCCXXIII. read Plate CCCLIV.