Niceratus
(Νικήρατος).
1. The father of Nicias, the celebrated Athenian general. (Thuc. 3.91; and passim.)
2. A son of Nicias, was put to death by the thirty tyrants, to whom his great wealth was no doubt a temptation. Theramenes, in his defence, as reported by Xenophon, mentions the murder of Niceratus as one of' the acts which tended necessarily to alienate all moderate men from the government. On his death his wife slew herself to avoid falling into the power of the tyrants. Niceratus is spoken of as a man of very mild and benevolent disposition, and generally beloved. From Demosthenes we learn also that he was of a feeble constitution, and was childless; but the latter statement (if the reading ἄπαις be the right one) is inconsistent with the account in Lysias (Xen. Hell. 2.3.39; Schn. ad loc.; Diod. 14.5; Dem. c. Meid. p. 567; Lys. de Bonis Niciae Frat. p. 149). Niceratus is introduced as one of the characters in the Symposium of Xenophon. [E.E]
(Νικήρατος). To an epigrammatist of this name has been ascribed the fourth epigram of Nicaenetus, already mentioned [Nicaenetus], as of uncertain authorship. (Fabric. Bibl. Gracec. vol. iv. p. 485; Jacobs, Anthol. Graec. vol. vii. p. 230.) [W.M.G]
(Νικήρατος), a Greek writer on plants, one of the followers of Asclepiades of Bithynia (Dioscor. De Mat. Med. i. praef. vol. i. p. 2; St. Epiphan. Adv. Haeres. 1.1. 3, p. 3, ed. Colon. 1682), who is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion (ap. Gal. De Compos. Medicam. see. Loc. 3.1, vol. xii. p. 634), and must, therefore, have lived in the latter half of the first century, B. C. His medical formulae are several times quoted by Galen (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. vol. xiii. pp. 87, 96, 98, 110, &c., De Antid. 2.15, vol. xiv. p. 197), and once by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 32.31). Caelius Aurelianus mentions that he wrote a work on catalepsy (De Morb. 2.5, p. 376). [W.A.G]
the son of Euctemon, an Athenian statuary, flourished, as it seems from Pliny (Plin. Nat. 34.8. s. 19. §§ 19, 31), in the time of Alcibiades, of whom and his mother Demarete he made statues. He also made the Aesculapius and Hygieia, which stood, in Pliny's time, in the temple of Concord at Rome. Tatian (ad v. Graec. 53, 62) mentions his statues of Telesilla and Glaucippe, respecting which see Sillig, Ctal. Artif. s.v. [P.S]
- Paus. 6.12.4