Noega
Noega, æ, f. , ville de la Tarraconnaise : Plin. 4, 111.
Neige: quod idem significat. Adagium acrioribus Alemanniæ et Prussiæ potoribus notum :
Qui bibit ex Noegis, de Frischibus incipit ille ;
Cur sic, si quæras ? Sic lex Pruthenica sanxit.
Hoc est, ut in Bibl. German. exponitur tom. 15. pag. 73. Qui siccat fundum
calicis, primus ex eodem calice rursum repleto bibit ; sic enim sanxit lex Prussiæ : cujus
hanc afferunt rationem, quod alias quidam in exhaustum calicem venenum injecerint, ut ex
eo potentes enecarentur. Id ut caveretur, lata lex vino devotis haud ingrata.NOEGA
NOEGA (Νοίγα), a small city of the Astures, in Hispania Tarraconensis. It was seated on the coast, not far from the river Melsus, and from an estuary which formed the boundary between the Astures and Cantabri, in the neighbourhood of the present Gijon. Hence Ptolemy (Ptol. 2.6.6), who gives it the additional name of Ucesia (Νοιγαουκεσία), places it in the territory of the Cantabri. (Strab. 3. p. 167; Mela, 3.1; Plin. iv, 20. s. 34.)
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