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Naucrates

Ναυκράτης

(Ναυκράτης), historical.

1. A native of Carystus, who, with Androcles of Sphettus, lent a sum of money to Artemon and Apollodorus, for the recovery of which a suit was instituted by Androcles against Lacritus, the brother of Artemon. This matter is the subject of the speech of Demosthenes Πρὸς τὴν Λακρίτου παραγραφήν.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.