Nicocrates

(Νικοκράτης).

1. A Cyprian of this name collected an extensive library, in very early times. (Athen. 1.3a.)

2. Archon of Athens, B. C. 333. (Diod. 17.29; Dionys. Deinarch. vol. ii. p. 116.) Deinarchus pleaded against him, in behalf of Nicomachus. (Dionys. Deinarch. vol. ii. p. 118.)

3. A Lacedaemonian rhetorician twice referred to by Seneca. (Suasor. ii. ad extr. Coatrover. 3.20, ad extr.) In the latter passage, he calls him aridus et exsiccus declamator. Westermann (Gesch. der Griech. Beredt. p. 188) calls him Nicocratus.

4. A writer, otherwise unknown, quoted regarding a report that no one could sleep on the island of Aegae, sacred to Poseidon, on account of the god's appearance on the island, by the Scholiast on Apoil. Rhod. 1.831. [W.M.G]