Nicolaus
3. A Syracusan, who lost two sons in the war with Athens, but at its conclusion, in B. C. 413, endeavoured to persuade his countrymen to spare the Athenian prisoners. (Diod. 13.19_27.)
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.