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vol. Nicophon three lines quoted by Athenaeus (xiv. [.
xix. p. 59. ) He died when his son was in his 645, b. ) from a play bearing the name of Xeipoyáo.
twentieth year, A. D. 149, 150. (l. c. vol. vi. p. Topes, which had before been given to Nicochares,
756. )
(W. A. G. ) and in this he is followed by Dindorf. 6. Eelprives
NICON (Nirwr), a physician, mentioned by (Suid. ; Athen. iii. p. 80, b. vi. p. 269, e. ix. p. 368,
Cicero, B. C. 45 (ad Fam. vii. 20), the tutor of b. ). Besides these references there are others of
Sextus Fadius, and the author of a work Tepi less importance, collected by Meineke. No more
Noa voazías, De Educitate.
than about twenty-seven lines of his writings re-
He is perhaps the person quoted by Celsus (De main ; and from these, we can only say, as to his
;
Medic. v. 18. § 26, p. 87), and called in some merits as a comic writer, that he seems to have
editions Micon.
[W. A. G. ] possessed no small fund of humour. (Meineke,
NICO'PHANES (Nikopávns), a native of Me- Frag. Poet. Comic. vol. i. p. 256, &c. vol. ii. p. 818,
galopolis. He was a man of distinction, and was &c. ; Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. p. 101. ) (W. M. G. )
connected with Aratus by the rites of hospitality. NICO'STHENES. J. A Greek painter, of
In accordance with a secret agreement entered whom we only know that he was the teacher of
into with Aratus, Nicophanes and Cercidas induced Theodorus of Samos, and of Stadieus. (Plin.
the Megalopolitans to send an embassy to the con- H. N. xxxv. 11. s. 40. § 42. ) 2. A vase painter,
gress of the Achaeans, to induce them to join them
in seeking for assistance from Antigonus. They A similar, or rather worse character is given
were themselves deputed for this object, in which by Plutarch (De Aud. Poet. p. 18. b. ) of a painter
they were successful, B. c. 225. (Polyb. ii. 48, Chaerephanes, who is not elsewhere mentioned, and
&c. )
[Č. P. M. )
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NICOSTRATUS.
NICOSTRATUS.
p. 9. )
several works of whose have been recently dis- 4. An Athenian, against whom Demosthenes
covered. (Raoul-Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, wrote a speech for Apollodorus, who charges him
[P. S. ) with a good deal of ingratitude and unneighbourly
NICO'STRATE (Nikóotpatn). 1. [CAMENAE. ) conduct. Nothing more is known of him than
2. Wife of Oebalus, and mother of Hippocoon. the incidents mentioned in the speech itself, which
(Schol. ad Eurip. Or. 447; OEBALUS. ] [L. S. ] are not worth detailing here.
NICO'STRATUS (N. kootpatos), a son of Me- 5. An Athenian, who died away from Attica,
nelaus by the slave Pieris. (Paus. iii
. 18. $ 7, 19. leaving some property; for one of the parties in a
& 9. ) According to others (Apollod. iii. 11. $ 1), -law-suit about which Isacus wrote the speech, llepl
he was a son of Menelaus by Helena. [L. S. ] του Νικοστράτου κλήρου.
NICO'STRATUS (Nikóotpatus), historical. 6. An Argive, who, according to Diodorus (xvi.
1. An Athenian general
, the son of Diitrephes. 44), was not only possessed of uncommon strength
We first hear of him in B. c. 427. The struggle and courage, but was equally distinguished for his
between the oligarchical and democratical parties in prudence and discretion both in the council and in
Corcyra had commenced, when Nicostratus arrived the field. In battle he wore a lion's skin and
from Naupactus with twelve ships and a body of carried a club in imitation of Hercules. He con-
500 Messenians. Through his mediation a com- ducted a body of 3000 Argives to the assistance
pact was entered into between the contending of the Persian king, Ochus, for his expedition
parties, and a defensive and offensive alliance with against Egypt; the king having specially requested
the Athenians was formed. As Nicostratus was that the Argives would send him at the head of
about to depart the leaders of the commonalty such troops as they could furnish. Nicostratus
persuaded him to leave five of his vessels, pro seems to have taken a conspicuous part in the
mising to man five for himn instead. On board military operations of the king. (Diod. xvi. 48. )
these they attempted to place their enemies, but Plutarch (Apophth. p. 192. a. , de Vit. Pud. p. 535)
the latter fled for refuge to the temple of the records a saying of his in reply to Archidamus,
Dioscuri. Nicostratus strove to allay their fears, king of Sparta, who promised him a large sum of
but to no purpose.
About 400 of the party took money and any Spartan woman whom he might
refuge in the temple of Here, and were thence choose as a wife to induce him to deliver up to him
carried over to the island of Płychia. A few days a fortress of which he had the command.
afterwards, before the Athenians had departed, the 7. An officer in the service of Alexander the
Peloponnesian fleet under Alcidas and Brasidas Great. He was one of those who joined with
arrived. The democratical party were thrown into Sostratus in entering into a conspiracy to assassi-
consternation. The Athenian squadron set out in nate Alexander in revenge for an insult offered to
good order to meet the enemy, and skilfully sus Hermolaus. The conspiracy, happily, miscarried.
tained the attack of thirty-three vessels of the (Curt. viii. 6. $ 9, &c. )
Peloponnesian fleet ; and Nicostratus was begin- 8. A native of Trichone, in Aetolia, who is
ning to repeat the manoeuvres of Phormio, which spoken of inore than once by Polybius as having,
had been attended with such success off Naupactus, in conjunction with a man named Lattabus, in
when the remaining part of the fleet, having routed violation of treaties and in time of peace, made an
the Corcyraeans, advanced against the Athenians, outrageous attack upon the congress of the Pam-
who were compelled to retire. (Thuc. iii. 75, &c. ) boeotians. (Polyb. iv. 3, ix. 34. )
In B. c. 424, Nicostratus was one of the colleagues 9.
A Rhodian, who commanded a vessel in the
of Nicias in the expedition in which Cythera was naval battle with Philip off Chios, B. C. 201. In
taken. (Thuc. iv. 53, &c. ) He was one of the B. C. 168 he was one of the ambassadors sent by
Athenians who took the oaths to the year's truce the Rhodians to L. Aemilius and to Perseus.
concluded between Sparta and Athens (Thuc. iv. (Polyb. xvi. 5, xxix, 4. )
119); and later in the same year was the colleague 10. Praetor of the Achaean league in B. C. 197.
of Nicias in the expedition to Chalcidice (Nicias). He was present at the meeting held at Mycenae,
(Thuc. iv. 129, 130). In B. C. 418, Nicostratus at the invitation of Nabis, at wbich Flamininus
and Laches led a body of 1000 heavy-armed soldiers and Attalus were also present. On the part of
and 300 cavalry to Argos, accompanied by Alci- the Achaeans he entered into a truce for four
biades as ambassador. The Athenian troops, months with Nabis. (Liv. xxxii. 39, 40. ) Later
accompanied by the allies of Argos, proceeded to in the same year, being at Sicyon with a body of
attack Orchomenos, which made no resistance. troops, by a skilfully devised stratagem he inflicted
From Orchomenos, having been joined by the a severe defeat on the forces of Philip, stationed
Argives, the combined forces proceeded against at Corinth under the command of Androsthenes
Tegea. Agis marched to protect the place, and in [ANDROSTHENES), while they were ravaging the
the battle which ensued near Mantineia Nico- lands of Pellene, Sicyon, and Phlius. (Liv. xxxiji.
stratus and his colleague were both slain. (Thuc. 14, 15. )
v. 61–74).
ll. A native of Cilicia, and a man of distin-
2. An Athenian, known by the surname o karós, guished family. The period when he lived may
was slain in an engagement with the forces of be gathered from the statement of Quinctilian
Thrasybulus, in a descent which the latter made (Inst. Orat. ii. 8. $ 14), that in his youth he had
from Phyle (Xen. Hellen. ii. 4. $ 6).
seen Nicostratus, who was then an old man.
3. Two different persons of the name of Nico-When a boy, Nicostratus was carried off by pirates,
stratus are mentioned in the speech of Demosthenes and taken to Aegeae, where he was purchased
against Eubulides ; one, the son of Niciades, the from them by some person. He was renowned for
other a foreigner, who was surreptitiously enrolled his strength and prowess, and at one of the
amongst the citizens through the agency of Eubu- Olympic festivals gained the prize on the same
lides. (Dem. adv. Eubul. pp. 1305, 1317, ed. day in the wrestling match and the pancratium.
Reiske. )
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as
were :
NICO'STRATUS, literary. 1. The youngest | nick-name Anticura. He is perhaps the simo
of the three sons of Aristophanes, according to person whose medical formulae are frequently
Apollodorus. He was himself a comic poet. By quoted by Andromachus (ap. Gal. De Compos.
Athenacus (xiii. p. 597, d. ) he is expressly called Medicam. sec. Loc. viii. 2, ix. 6, vol. xiii. pp.
a poet of the middle comedy. But he belonged | 139, 308, and Aët. iii. 1, 32, p. 478), and others,
also in part to the new comedy. Harpocration and who must, therefore, have lived in or before
(p. 266) speaks of his play called 'Opvibeutńs, as the first century after Christ. (W. A. G. )
belonging to that species of comedy ; and some of NICO'STRATUS, artist. (NICOMACHUS. )
the characters which he introduced in other dramas NIGER, a Latin writer (judging by his name)
demonstrate the same. In his Bagineis he introduced on Materia Medica, who lived later than Craterns,
a boasting soldier (Athen. vi. p. 230, d. ); in his and a little before Dioscorides (Dioscor. De Mul.
Tokioths, an avaricious money-lender (Athen. xv. Med. i. pracf. , vol. i. p. 2), and therefore probably
p. 685, f. ) and a vaunting cook (Athen. xiv. p. about the beginning of the first century after
664, b. ). Photius (Cod. 190. p. 153, ed. Bekk. ) Christ. He seems to hare enjoyed some repu-
has got a story that Nicostratus being inflamed tation a writer, is he is mentioned by
with a mad passion for some one named Tettigidaca, St. Kipiphanius (udr. Ilucres. i. 1. $ 3. p. 3), and
leapt off the Leucadian rock.
several times by Galen among eminent pharma-
The titles of nineteen of the plays of Nico- ceutical authors (De Simplic. Melicum. Temper. ac
stratus have come down to us. Three of these, the Fault. vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 797, De Antiil. i. 2.
"Avtudos (Athen. jji. 108, c. 113, e. ), the Oivo- vol. xiv. p. 7, Closs. Hippocr. pracf. vol. xix.
mlwr (Athen. iv. p. 169, e. vii. p. 280, d. ; Suidas, p. 64). Caelius Aurelianus calls him the friend of
s. v. Duétaipos), and the Mavòpooos (Athen. xiii. Tullius Bassus (De Morb. Acut. iii. 16. p. 233),
p. 587, d. xv. p. 693, a. rere also attributed to and Galen says he was follower of Asclepiades
Philetaerus, who, according to some authorities (l. c. vol. xi. p. 794. ). * He is perhaps the person
(Schol. ad Plat.