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Νίκων
(Νίκων), historical.
1. A Tarentine, who headed the insurrection of his fellow-citizens against Milon, the governor, who had been left by Pvrrhus in command of the citadel of Tarentum. (Zonar. 8.6, p. 379a.)
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.