or Nadoun, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, being the principal one of the Kangrah country, is situated on the eastern bank of the Beyah river. This place was considered as a respectable fortress in the year 1014, and was taken from the Hindus by Sultan Mahmoud of Ghizni. The Nadone district borders on the Punjab. It is mountainous, and is governed by a Hindu prince, tributary to the Sikhs, who was plundered by the rajah of Nepaul's army. Long. of the town 75. 47. E. Lat. 31. 59. N.

NÆNIA, the goddess of funerals at Rome. Her temple was without the gates of the city. The songs which were sung at funerals were also called nemia. They were generally filled with the praises of the deceased; but sometimes they were so unmeaning and improper, that the word became proverbial to signify nonsense.

NAERDEN, a strong town of Holland, situated at the head of the canals of the province. The foundations of it were laid by William of Bavaria, in 1350. It was taken by the Spaniards in 1572, and by the French in 1672; but it was retaken by the Prince of Orange the next year. It stands at the south end of the Zuyder Zee, in long. 5. 3. E. and lat. 51. 22. N.

NÆVIUS, Cætius, a tragic and comic poet, was a native of Campania, and flourished about the year 235 B.C., having served in the first Punic war (264-241 B.C.), which he celebrated in an epic poem (Gell. xvii. 21, 45; v. 12, 7). He wrote a little before the time of Ennius, who was born in 239 B.C. and died in 169. He was younger than Livius Andronicus, who exhibited his first play the year before Ennius was born, B.C. 240. Naevius was the author of several tragedies, many of the titles of which have been preserved; and from them it is easy to discover that they were imitations of the Greek writers. But he appears to have earned still higher praise by his labours as a writer of comedy. Pursuing the path of the old Attic comedy, he lashed with an unsparing hand the vices of the Roman nobles; for which he was driven into exile, or, according to others, confined in prison, where he nevertheless seems to have written two tragedies. Such an example of severity could not have but impeded the free development of the comic muse of Rome. All that remains of the comedies of Naevius are the mere names, and a few insignificant fragments. The epic poem on the first Punic war was divided into seven books by C. Octavius Lamprodius (Sueton. De Illust. Graec. 2). Naevius died in exile at Utica, on the coast of Africa, a. c. 201, the very year in which the second Punic war terminated. (Eusebius.) The fragments have been published under the title of Enni Anni, Fragments et Cn. Naevii Fragm. Leipzig, 1825.