in Ancient Geography, a city of the Higher Egypt, in the Nomos Panopolitanus, between Thebae to the south, and Panopolis to the north, on the east side of the Nile; otherwise called Caerene. A Neapolis second Neapolis of Babylonia, situated near the Euphrates on the south side.—A third of Campania, an ancient town and a colony from Cumae. See Velius, Pliny, Strabo; accounted a Greek city, and a great stickler for Greek usages, (See 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 posterity. The Younger Pliny relates, that Virgil's birth day was more religiously observed by Silius Italicus than his own, especially at Naples, where he resorted to his tomb as to a temple. The city is washed by the river Sebethus. Virgil feigns the nymph Sebethis to preside over the stream. Now Naples, capital of the kingdom of that name. See Naples.

A fourth, Neapolis of Caria, near the Meander, (Ptolemy).—A fifth, an inland town of Cyrenaica, situated between Ptolemais and Arsinoe, (Ptolemy); and to be distinguished from the Canopis, or Neapolis, on the east border of the same province, (id.) A sixth of Ionia, (Strabo); which belonged first to the Ephesians, but afterwards to the Samians, who exchanged Marathusium, a more distant city, for a nearer.—A seventh, Neapolis of Macedonia Adjecta, situated at the distance of 12 miles to the east of Philippi, (Antonine).—An eighth, Neapolis of Paphia, on the borders of Galatia, situated between Ambla and Pappa, (Ptolemy).—A ninth of Samaria, the ancient Sichem, which see; so called upon its restoration by the Romans, (Cain, Pliny, Josephus).—A tenth of Sardinia, situated on the south-west side of the island, 30 miles to the north of Metalla; now called Neapolis.—An eleventh, of the Regio Syrtica, called also Leptis.—A twelfth, of Zeugitana on the Mediterranean, to the east of Clypea, and south of the Promontorium Mercuri.