(Νεῖλος/Neîlos, Latin Nilus).
[1] N. of Ancyra Author of monastic letters and stories, c. 400
A number of monastic letters, stories, apophthegmata, treatises and fragments are attributed to a N. of Ancyra or an ascetic N. in MSS. The question of authorship is hardly fully resolved in any of the texts. If the autobiographical data in the Dihēgḗmata [1. 6044] are not held to be authentic (but so in [4]), little more is known of N. th…