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Neocles

2. Brother of Epicurus, wrote an account of the sect of the Epicureans, which is lost. He was the author of the maxim λάθε Βιώσας, upon which Plutarch wrote a small essay. (Plut. Non Suau. Vivi Sec. Epic. pp. 1089, 1128, &c.; Suidas, s. v. Νεοκλῆς; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 608.)

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.