NICOLAUS DAMASCENUS  , See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek historian and philosopher of See also:

• DAMASCUS

Damascus, flourished in the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of See also:

• AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Augustus and See also:

• HEROD
• HEROD (surnamed THE GREAT)

Herod the See also:

• GREAT

Great, with both of whom he was on terms of friendship . He instructed Herod in See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric and See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, and had attracted the See also:

• NOTICE

notice of Augustus when he accompanied his See also:

• PATRON

patron on a visit to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome . Later, when Herod's conduct aroused the suspicions of Augustus, Nicolaus was sent on a See also:

• MISSION

mission to bring about a reconciliation . He survived Herod, and it was through his See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence that the See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession was secured for See also:

• ARCHELAUS

Archelaus; but the date of his See also:

• DEATH

death, like that of his See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth, is unknown . Fragments of his universal See also:

• HISTORY

history (`Io-ropta eaOoXtin), from the time of the See also:

• ASSYRIAN

Assyrian See also:

• EMPIRE

empire to his own days, his autobiography, and his See also:

• LIFE

life of Augustus (Dios Kaio•apos) have been preserved, chiefly in the extracts of See also:

• CONSTANTINE

Constantine Porphyrogenitus . Nicolaus also wrote comedies and tragedies, paraphrased and wrote commentaries on parts of See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle, and was himself the author of philosophical See also:

• TREATISES

treatises . Fragments in C . See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller, Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, iii.; see also F . Navet, Nikolaus von Damascus (1853), containing an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his life and writings, and See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the fragments .