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Nicostratus

9. A Rhodian, who commanded a vessel in the naval battle with Philip off Chios, B. C. 201. In B. C. 168 he was one of the ambassadors sent by the Rhodians to L. Aemilius and to Perseus. (Plb. 16.5, 29.4.)

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.