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Saulcy \^Dead Sea, i, 75], Nayin, pronounced by the Arabs exactly as 'iiaiv), which contains remains of very ancient buildings, with a fountain (Tristram, Land of Is7-ael, p. 130). It stands on a bleak, rocky slope, on the northern declivity of Jebel ed-Duhy (the"" hill Mo- reh" of Scripture, and the " Little Hermon" of modern travellers), directly facing Tabor, from which it is four miles distant, and two and a half miles south-west of Endor. It is a small, poor hamlet, of some twenty houses, or rather huts. Round the houses, however, are pretty extensive ruins; and there are some traces of what appears to be an ancient wall. The most in- teresting antiquities are tombs, hewn in the rock, a short distance east of the village. It was in this direc- tion our Lord approached, and probably to one or other of those very tombs they were bearing the corpse when he met and arrested the mournful procession (see Thom- son, Land and Book, ii, 158). The situation of Nain is extremely beautiful. At the foot of the slope on which it stands is the great plain of Esdraelon, bounded on the north by the graceful wooded hills of Galilee, over which the snow-capped summits of Hermon and Lebanon ap- pear. See Robinson, Bib. Res. ii, 361 ; Van de Velde, Syria a?id Palestine, ii, 382 ; Stanley, Sinai and Pales- tine, p. 357 ; Porter, Hand-book to Syria, p. 358.
Nai^Oth (Heb., margin, nayoth', m^3, dwellings; text, Nevayoth', ^"^13 ; Sept. l^ava^r, v. r. 'Saviw^ and Aiio^: Vulg. Najoth), or, more fully, "Naioth in Ra- mah," a place in which Samuel and David took refuge together, after the latter had made his escape from the jealous fury of Saul (1 Sam. xix, 18, 19, 22, 23; xx, 1). " Naioth" occurs both in Heb. and A. V. in 1 Sam. xix, 18 only. The Sept. supplies tv 'Vajid in that verse. The Vulg. adheres to the Hebrew. It is evident from ver. 18 that Naioth was not actualh' in Ramah, Samuel's habitual residence, though from the aftix it must have been near it (Ewald, iii, 66). In its corrected form (Ke7-i) the name becomes a mere appellation, and from an early date has been interpreted to mean the huts or dwellings of a school or college of prophets over which Samuel presided, as Elisha did over those at Gilgal and Jericho. This appears first in the Targum-Jonathan, where for Naioth we find throughout X3S?1St ^'.'^2, " the house of instruction," the term which appears in later times to have been regularly applied to the schools of the rabbis (Buxtorf, Lex. Talm. col. 106) ; and there ver. 20 is rendered, "And they saw the company of scribes singing praises, and Samuel teaching, standing over them," thus introducing the idea of Samuel as a teacher. Jerome, in his notice of this name in the Onomasticon (s. v. Namoth), refers to his observations thereon in the "libri Hebraicarum qusestionum." As, however, we at present possess these books, they con- tain no reference to Naioth. Josephus calls it " a cer- tain place named Galbaalh'' {ra\(3adSr), and distin- guishes it from Ramah (^Ant. vi, 11, 5). R. Isaiah and other Jewish commentators state that Ramah was the name of a hill, and Naioth of the place upon it. See
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Naironi, An-tonio-Fausto, a ISIaronite savant, was born about 1635 at Ban, on Mount Lebanon, and was a nephew of Abraham Ecchellensis. Naironi was edu- cated at Parma ; and after a voyage to Syria to procure works relative to his Protestant brethren, he became professor of the Syriac language in the College de Sa- pience in 1666, and occupied this chair until 1694. He died at Rome Nov. 3, 1707. We have of his works, Officia sanctorum juxta ritum ecclesicB Maronitarum (Rome, 1656, 1666, fol.) : — De saluberrima potione cahue sen cafe nuncupata discursus (Rome, 1671, 12mo; trans- lated into Italian by Fred. Vegilin [Rome, 1671] and by Paul Bosca [Milan, 1673], and into Vx&i\ch):—Dissertatio de origiiie, nomine ac rellgiom Maronitarum (Rome, 1679, 8vo ; a work eclipsed by the learned researches of Assemani) -.—Evoplia Jidei catkolicm Romance histori-
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co-doffmaticcB (Rome, 1694, 8vo), in which is found a large jiumber of curious facts in the civil and religious historj' of the East. See Iloefer, Xouv. Biog. Gen. s. v.
Naitore, Charles, a French painter and engraver, whose works were mostly on sacred subjects, was bom at Nismes in 1700. lie studied under Francois le i\[oine, and was employed to finish several works left incom- plete at the death of that master. Little is recorded of the circumstances of his life. His chief merit seem- ed to have consisted in the correctness of his design ; his coloring is criticised as feeble and cold. The prin- cipal works of Naitore adorn the apartments of the (irst story of the Chateau Versailles, the Motel dc Soubise, and the cliapel of Les Enfans Trouves, at Paris. In 1755 he was appointed director of the French Academy at Kome, which honorable office he filled until 1775. He died, according to Dumesnil, in 1777. There are a few etchings by Naitore executed from his own designs in a free and spirited manner. Among his works on sacred subjects arc The Crucifixion, with Mary Mag- daltna at the foot of the Cross, The Adoration of the Magi, and the Martyrdom of St. Fered. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. Fine A rts, ii, 610.