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1. nĭco, ci, 3, v. n. [root gnic-, gnig-; Germ. neigen; cf. conivere (for cognigvere), to close (the eyelids), shut fast; v. also nitor, nixus], to beckon, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 63 and 64.

2. Nīco (Nīcon, Inscr. Grut. 656, 5), ōnis, m., = Νίκων.

  1. I. A physician, Cic. Fam. 7, 20, 3.
  2. II. A famous pirate, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 30, § 79.

Nīcocles, is, m., = Νικοκλῆς, a tyrant of Sicyon, overthrown by Aratus, Cic. Off. 2, 23, 81.

Nīcŏlāus, i, m., = Νικόλαος, a Peripatetic philosopher from Damascus, a friend of Augustus; hence, Nīcolāus, a, um, adj., of Nicolaus: dactyli Nicolai, a kind of dates of a larger size than ordinary, Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 45; Edict. Diocl. p. 18.

Nīcŏmēdenses, ium, v. Nicomedia, II.

Nīcŏmēdes, is, m., = Νικομήδης.

  1. I. Son of Prusias, a king of Bithynia, Cic. de Or. 2, 61, 229; id. Verr. 2, 1, 24, § 63.
  2. II. The son of the former, who declared himself a freedman of the Roman people, Just. 34, 4; 38, 5; Suet. Caes. 2.

Nīcŏmēdīa, ae, f., = Νικομήδεια,

  1. I. the capital of Bithynia, now Izmid, Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149; Amm. 22, 9, 3; Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 45.
    Hence,
  2. II. Nīcŏmēdenses, ĭum, m., the Nicomedians, Plin. et Traj. Ep. 37 (46), 1; Dig. 50, 9, 5; Inscr. Grut. 389, 2.

Nīcon, ōnis, v. 2. Nico.

† nīcŏphŏros, i, m., = νικόφορος, a kind of bind-weed, withwind: milax quoque, qui et nicophoros nominatur, Plin. 24, 10, 49, § 82 (Jahn, anthophoros).

Nīcŏpŏlis, is, f., = Νικόπολις, the name of several cities, among them a city of Epirus, founded by Augustus to commemorate the battle of Actium, now Prevesa Vecchia, or Paleo-prevesa, Tac. A. 2, 53; Suet. Aug. 18.
Also a city in Lesser Armenia, built by Pompey, Auct. B. Alex. 36.

Nīcŏpŏlītānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Nicopolis, Nicopolitan: civitas, Plin. 4, 1, 2, § 5.
Nīcŏpŏlītāni, ōrum, m., the Nicopolitans, in Lower Moesia, Inscr. Grut. 527, 7.