Nicocrates
3. A Lacedaemonian rhetorician twice referred to by Seneca. (Suasor. ii. ad extr. Coatrover. 3.20, ad extr.) In the latter passage, he calls him aridus et exsiccus declamator. Westermann (Gesch. der Griech. Beredt. p. 188) calls him Nicocratus.
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