Niceratus
Νικήρατος
(Νικήρατος), a Greek writer on plants, one of the followers of Asclepiades of Bithynia (Dioscor. De Mat. Med. i. praef. vol. i. p. 2; St. Epiphan. Adv. Haeres. 1.1. 3, p. 3, ed. Colon. 1682), who is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion (ap. Gal. De Compos. Medicam. see. Loc. 3.1, vol. xii. p. 634), and must, therefore, have lived in the latter half of the first century, B. C. His medical formulae are several times quoted by Galen (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. vol. xiii. pp. 87, 96, 98, 110, &c., De Antid. 2.15, vol. xiv. p. 197), and once by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 32.31). Caelius Aurelianus mentions that he wrote a work on catalepsy (De Morb. 2.5, p. 376).
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.