(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 sire 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 Baiae, according to Strabo: at two miles distance from it stands the monument of Virgil, held in religious veneration by learned piety. The Younger Pliny relates, that Virgil's birthday was more religiously observed by Silius Italicus than his own, especially at Naples, where he referred to his tomb as to a temple. The city is washed by river Scbethus. Virgil feigns 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 Curia, near the Meander, (Ptolemy).—A fifth, an inland town of Cyrenaica, situate between Ptolemais and Arlinea, (Ptolemy); NEC

Necesity; and to be distinguished from the Cænopolis, or Neapolis, on the east border of the same province, (id.).—A fifth, of Ionia, (Strabo); which belonged first to the Ephesians, but afterwards to the Samians, who exchanged Marathesium, a more distant city, for a nearer.—A seventh, Neapolis of Macedonia Adjecta, situate at the distance of 12 miles to the east of Philippi, (Antonine).—An eighth, Neapolis of Pisdia, on the borders of Galatia, situate between Ambla and Pappa, (Ptolemy).—A ninth, of Samaria, the ancient Sihem, 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 Lepis.—A twelfth, of Zeugitana on the Mediterranean, to the east of Clypea, and south of the Promontorium Mercuiri.