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

1200 NICOSTRATUS.- NICOSTRAT US.
several works of whose have been recently dis- 4. An Athenian, against whom Demosthenes
covered. (Raoul-Rochette, Lettre a M. Schorn, wrote a speech for Apollodorus, who charges him
p. 9.) [P. S.] with a good deal of ingratitude and unneighbourly
NICO'STRATE (NtLco'epav77). 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'STRAT US (NLKuo'rpawros), 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 Isaeus wrote the speech, rinpl
be was a son of Menelaus by Helena. [L. S.] TroO NvtcoorprTeov tKscpov.
NICO'STRATUS (NucoorrpaTos), 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 con500 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 him 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 Ptychia. 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 assassiconsternation. 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 more 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 Pamwhowere 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.)
1119); 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 which 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 [ANDROSTHE.NxEs], while they were ravaging the
the battle which ensued near Mantineia Nico- lands of Pellene, Sicyon, and Phlius. (Liv. xxxiii.
stratus and his colleague were both slain. (Thuc. 14, 15.)
v. 61-74). 11. A native of Cilicia, and a man of distin2. An Athenian, known by the surname i icaXo's, 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'ides. (Dem. adv. EubuI, pp. 1305, 1317, ed. day in the wrestling match and the pancratinml
RIeiske.) (Paus. v. 21. ~ 11; Tacit. de Oral. 10.) [C.PTM.]