Nicanor
9. A Syrian Greek, who, together with a Gaul named Apaturius, assassinated Seleucus III. Ceraumus, during his expedition into Asia against Attalus, B. C. 222. He was immediately seized and executed by order of Achaeus. (Plb. 4.48; Euseb. Arm. p. 165, fol. ed.)
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.