Nicagoras
literary. An Athenian sophist, the son of the rhetorician Mnesaeus, who lived in the time of the emperor Philippus. He wrote an account of the lives of various illustrious men (Βίοι ἐλλογίμων), of Cleopatra of the Troad, and a speech composed on the occasion of an embassy to the emperor. He had a son named Minucianus. The writings of Minucianus [see above, p. 1092a] are sometimes erroneously attributed to his son Nicagoras. (Suidas, s. vv. Μινονκιανός, Νικαψόρας Philostr. Vit. Soph. II. Aspas. extr.)
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