Nicias
9. An officer in the service of Perseus, king of Macedonia. He seems to have been in command at Pella. When the fortunes of Perseus appeared desperate, in a moment of bewilderment he gave directions to Nicias to throw his treasures into the sea, and to Andronicus to burn his fleet. The former executed the commands of the king, though a large part of the treasure was afterwards recovered. But Perseus, to get rid of the witnesses of such an act of folly, had both Nicias and Andronicus put to death, B. C. 169. (Liv. 44.10.)
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.