Nemine Coutradicente, or Nem. Con., is a term used in ecclesiastical councils to indicate that there is no opposition to a given measure proposed.
Nemine Dissentiente, or Nem. Diss., " No one dissenting." This term also is very often found in jour- nals of conventions, and other documents containing business proceedings.
Nemu'el [according to analogy Nem'u'el'] (Heb. NennieV, ^Xl':?, spread of God, or perhaps for Jemuel; Se]3t. 'SafiouiiX ; Vulg. Navntel), the name of two He- brews.
1. The first named of the five sons of Simeon (I Chron. iv, 24), and progenitor of the Nemuelites (Numb. xxvi, 12). He is elsewhere (Gen. xlvi, 10) called Jemuel (q. v.).
2. First-named son of Eliab, of the tribe of P.euben, and brother of Dathan and Abiram (Numb, xxvi, 9). B.C. cir. 1619.
Nemu'elites (Heb. Nemueli', "^bx^l":". Gentile appellative from ^N^irp, Nemiiel ; Sept. 'SafiovrjXi ; Vulg. Ninmielit(e}, a family in the tribe of Simeon, de- scended from his first-born (Numb, xxvi, 12). See Nemuei..
Nennius, of Bangor, in Wales, a noted British mo- nastic, flourished in Uie first part of the 9th century (comp. Historia Britonum). Yossius {De Historicis La- tinis) says that he lived in the early part of the 7th century, but he assigns no authority for this assertion. In the' history Nennius states himself to have been a Briton, and not a Saxon, and a disciple of the holy bishop Elbodus, or Elvodug. He wrote a history of
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Britain, Ilistoria Britonum, or, as it is sometimes styled, Kuluijium tSritannice, wliich, he says at the bej^inning, he compiled from all lie could find — "from the Roman annals and the climnicles of the fathers, as well as from the writings of the Scots and the Angli, and from the traditions of onr ancestors." The history begins with a fabulous genealogy of Brutus, grandson of ^Eneas, wlio reigned in Britain. The author afterwards relates the arrival of the Picts in North Britain, and of the Scots in Ireland; and, after a brief and confused narra- tive of the Itonian conquest and empire in Britain, he comes to the Saxon invasion and gradual subjugation of the country. The manuscript of Nennius was muti- lated and interpolated by a transcriber, who signs him- self " Samuel," and " a disciple of Beularius Presbyter," and who acknowledges that he left out what he thought useless in Nennius's work, and added what he gathered from other writers concerning the towns and wonders of Britain : see end of ch. Ixiv of Nennii Banchoriensis Kido(f'mm Brilaiinia, edited by C. Bertram, and pub- lished together with Gildas and Richard, the Monk of W'estmiiis/er (Copenhagen, 1757, 8 vo). Such is the com- mon account of Xennius; but it is, to say tlie least, doubtful wlietlier such a person ever existed, and wheth- er the history ascribed to him was not the fabrication of a mucli later age. Though the work existed earlier, the name of Nennius is not mentioned in connection with it earlier than the loth century. It is in any case of little value, but even that little is of course greatly reduced if it be the production of an age much later than it jjrofesses to be. The question will be found fully discussed in 'SlrAV right's Biof/mp/iid Brifinmica lAtcnirii ( Anglo-Saxon period), p. 137-U2; the Intro- duction to Mr. Stevenson's valuable variorum edition of the nUlnrin B/itonum; Schoell, JJiss. de Eccles. Brito- num Scoldrumqite //istorim Fontibus, p. 29-37, A trans- lation of Neiniius, by the Rev. W. Gunn, was published in London (1819, 8vo), and reprinted iti the Six Old English Chronicles, published as a volume in Bohn's "Antiqua- rian Library" (1818). (J. N. P.)
Neo-Arians. See Arlvns; Socinians; Unita- rians.
Neo - Ccesarea, Council of {Concilium Neoce- $are)i.«'). was liclil at Neo-Ca'sarca, in Pontus, about the year Hit, shortly after the Council of Ancyra. It was composed, for the most part, of the same bishops who assisted at the latter, and Vitalis of Antioeh is believed to have presided. Fifteen canons of discipline were published. The most important acts are : 1, enjoining the degradation of priests who marry after ordination — a very important measure, and of interest to the inquir- ing student into the history of celibacy (see Lea, JJist. of Sacerdotal Cdibacij, p. 48, 49); 2, depriving of com- munion, through life, women who, having married two brothers, refuse to dissolve the marriage; 6, permitting to bajitize women with child whenever they will; 7, forbidding priests to be present at the second' marriage of any person; 8, forbidding to confer holy orders upon a layman whose wife has committed adultery: orders that if she has committed adultery after his ordination he shall put her away, and declares that if lie shall con- tinue to live with her he cannot retain the ministry committed to him; 11, forbidding to admit any one, liowevcr well qualified, to the priesthood under thirty years of age, because the Lord Jesus Christ at that age began his misiistry; 13, directing that, where both are l)resent, the city priests shall celebrate the holy eucha- rist in ])reference to those from tlie country; 14, declar- ing that tlie Chorepiscopi are after the itattern of the Seventy, and permitting them to offer; 15, ordering tliat there sliall be seven deacons in every city, as is ap- proved by the book of Acts, See LabbJ, Com: i. 1481); Landon, Mmiuul of Councils, p. 420, 421 ; Neander, Ch. J/ist. ii, 147, 15(i, 318.