Nicostratus
7. An officer in the service of Alexander the Great. He was one of those who joined with Sostratus in entering into a conspiracy to assassinate Alexander in revenge for an insult offered to Hermolaus. The conspiracy, happily, miscarried. (Curt. 8.6.9, &c.)
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.