the first king of the Assyrians, is said to have been the son of Belus. It is added, that he enlarged Nineveh and Babylon; conquered Zoroaster, king of the Bactrians; married Semiramis of Ascalon; subdued almost all Asia; and died after a glorious reign of fifty-two years, about 1150 before Christ. But all these alleged facts are apocryphal.

NIÔ, an island of the Archipelago, situated between Naxi on the north, Armago on the east, Santerino on the south, and Sikino on the west, and about thirty-five miles in circumference. It is remarkable for nothing but Homer's tomb, which it is pretended is in this island, where he is said to have died in his passage from Samos to Athens. Long.25.35. E. Lat.36.43. N.