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Nicaea

noun

An ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325.

The seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images. Synonym: Second Council of Nicaea.

The first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism. Synonym: First Council of Nicaea.

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... demonstrated the same by other numbers, and came nearer, which seems more accurate, but has nothing to do with Archimedes; for, as before said, he aimed only at going near enough for the wants of life. Neither is Porus of Nicaea fair when he takes Archimedes to task for not giving a line accurately equal to the circumference. He says in his Cerii that his teacher, Philo of Gadara, had given a more accurate approximation ([Greek: eis akribesterous arithmous agagein]) than that of Archimedes, ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan

... addressed a letter to him in Latin which he could not understand. The tradition that Latin was the official language of the world was taken up by the Christian church. Even when Constantine presided over the Council at Nicaea in the East, he addressed the ...

— The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature • Frank Frost Abbott