A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

NICOCREON. NICODEMUS. lI 91
lAfPION, has been mentioned by Eckhel (vol. iii. furnishing the theatrical exhibitions. (Plut. Aler.
p. 87). 29.) After the death of Alexander he took part
3. Of Soli, son of Pasicrates, an officer in the with Ptolemy against Antigonus, and in B. c. 315,
army of Alexander, was appointed to the command we find him actively co-operating with Seleucus
of a trireme during the voyage down the Indus. and Menelaus, the generals of Ptolemy, in effecting
(Arr. Ind. ] 8.) the reduction of those cities of Cyprus which had
4. An Athenian, who was put to death together espoused the opposite cause. In return for these
with Phocion (B. C. 318), to whom he had always services he subsequently obtained from Ptolemy
been attached by the warmest personal friendship: the territories of Citium, Lapethus, Ceryneia, and
on which account he begged as a last favour to be Marion, in addition to his own, and was entrusted
allowed to drink the poison before his illustrious with the chief command over the whole island.
friend, a request which Phocion unwillingly con- (Diod. xix. 59, 62, 79.) We know nothing of the
ceded. (Plut. Phoc. 35, 36.) fortunes of Nicocreon after this: but as no mention
5. Tyrant of Sicyon, to which position he raised occurs of his name during the memorable siege of
himself by the murder of Paseas, who had suc- Salamis, by Demetrius (B. C. 306), or the great
ceeded his son Abantidas in the sovereign power sea-fight that followed it, it seems probable that he
[ABANTIDAS]. He had reigned only four months, must have died before those events. The only
during which period he had already driven into personal anecdote transmitted to us of Nicocreoni
exile eighty of the citizens, when the citadel of is his putting to death in a barbarous manner the
Sicyon (which had narrowly escaped falling into philosopher Anaxarchus in revenge for an insult
the hands of the Aetolians shortly before) was sur- which the latter had offered him on the occasion
prised in the night by a party of Sicyonian exiles, of his visit to Alexander. (Cic.'usc. ii. 22, de
headed by young Aratus. The palace of the tyrant Nat. Deor. iii. 33; Plut. de Virt. p. 449; Diog.
was set on fire, but Nicocles himself made his Lairt. ix. 59.)
escape by a subterranean passage, and fled from the 2. A Cyprian who formed a design against the
city. Of his subsequent fortunes we know nothing. life of Evagoras I., king of Salamis: he was de(Plut.'Arat. 3 —9; Paus. ii. 8 ~ 3; Cic. de 0 tected and arrested, but subsequently escaped.
ii. 23.) (Theopomp. ap. Phot. p. 120, a.) [E. H.B.]
6. A Syracusan, whose daughter was married to NICODA'MUS (NK4oaluoso), a statuary of
Hieron I., and became the mother of Deinomenes. Maenalus in Arcadia, made statues of the Olympic
(Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. i. 112.) [E. H. B.] victors Androsthenes, Antiochus, and DamoxeniNICOCLES (NIKOKcXS), literary. 1. A comic das; one of Athena, dedicated by the Eleians
writer mentioned by Athenaeus (viii. p. 327), and one of Hercules, as a youth, killing the
where, however, the name is incorrect, and should Nemean lion with his arrows, dedicated at Olympia
be altered into Timocles. [TIMOCLES.] by Hippotion of Tarentum. (Paus. v. 6. ~ 1, 26,
2. A Lacedaemonian, was the teacher of gram- ~ 5, vi. 6. ~ 1, 3. ~ 4, x. 25. ~ 4.) Since Andromar to the emperor Julian (Socrat. iii. 1). From sthenes conquered in the pancratium in the 90th
the words of Socrates we may infer that he was a Olympiad, B. c. 420 (Thuc. v. 49), the date of NicoChristian. This Nicocles is perhaps the same as damus may be placed about that time. [P. S.]
the one mentioned in the Etymologicum Magnum NICODE'MUS (Nsc68dL/os), historical. 1. A
(s. v. cdxAhos4). Libanins (vol. i. p. 24) likewise tyrant of Centoripa in Sicily, who was driven out
mentions a rhetorician of Constantinople of this by Timoleon, B. c. 339. (Diod. xvi. 82.)
name. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 373; Wester- 2. An Athenian of the deme Aphidnae, a partizan
mann, Geschichte der Griechischen aBeredtsa nskeit, of Eubulus. He was murdered by Aristarchus,
g 102, n. 1.) [L. S.] the son of Moschus. Demosthenes, for no other
NICO'CRATES (NKcoicpa'T77). 1. A Cyprian reason apparently than that he was opposed to the
of this name collected an extensive library, in very party of Eubulus, was suspected of having been
early times. (Athen. i. p. 3, a.) privy to the murder (Dem. Meid. p. 549; Sc/hol.
2. Archon of Athens, B. c. 333. (Diod. xvii. 29; Ulpian. ad p. 548; Deinarch. c. Deml. p. 24, ed.
Dionys. Deinarch. vol. ii. p. 116.) Deinarchus Reiske).
pleaded against him, in behalf of Nicomachus. A man of the name of Nicodemus also figures
(Dionys. Deinarch. vol. ii. p. 118.) in the speech of Isaeus, IrEpl ToO rInppSo KscX7pV.
3. A Lacedaemonian rhetorician twice referred 3. A Messenian, mentioned by Plutarch (Dent.
to by Seneca. (Suasor. ii. ad extr. Controver. iii. p. 852, a.), who contrasts his political tergiversation
20, ad extr.) In the latter passage, he calls him (he had first espoused the cause of Cassander, afteraridus et exsiccuzs declamator. Westermann wards that of Demetrius) with the conduct of
(Gesch. dear G-iech. Beredt. p. 188) calls him Ni- Demosthenes.
cocratus. 4. A native of Elis, sent by Philopoemen at the
4. A writer, otherwise unknown, quoted re- head of an embassy to Rome, B.C. 187. (Polyb.
garding a report that no one could sleep on the xxiii. 1, 7.) [C. P. M.]
island of Aegae, sacred to Poseidon, on account of NICODE'MUS (NscosAos), of Heracleia.
the god's appearance on the island, by the Scho- Seven epigrams written by him have by an inliast on Apoll. Rhod. i. 831. [W. M. G.] advertence of Brunck been attributed to NicoNICOICREON (NLKOcpWev), 1. King of Sa- demus, the physician of Smyrna. They are of
lamis in Cyprus, at the time of Alexander's ex- the childish class of epigrams, called dvay-r'rpipedition into Asia. He submitted to the conqueror Pov'ra, or davaKucNiKa, in which the sense is
in common with the other princes of Cyprus, with- the same, though each distich be read from end
out opposition; and in B.C. 331, after the return to beginning, instead of from beginning to end.
of Alexander from Egypt, repaired to Tyre to pay The epigrams of Nicodemus consist of two lines
homage to that monarch, where he distinguished each, in the elegiac measure, and seem to have
limself by the mlagnificence which he displayed in been principally inscriptions for statues and pic4G 4