Nicias
4. A herald of Philip, king of Macedonia, who was carried off from Macedonia, and kept ten months in custody at Athens. The letters of which he was the bearer were publicly read at Athens. (Philippi Epist. in Dem. Op. p. 159, ed. Reiske).
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.