Note 140 — ESSAYS. (continued 2)
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Some think they were the same; but there seems to have been an older Nicias than either. Perhaps a Thracian, or a Macedonian. Omphalion, who was employed by the Messenians to paint a long series of supposed portraits of their ancient kings in the temple of Æsculapius, at Messene, was the pupil of a Nicias, I suppose of Nicias of Athens.
Pausanias Messenics, ch. 21.