Philocrates
Φιλοκράτης
(Φιλοκράτης).
1. An Athenian, son of Demeas, was commander of the reinforcement which was sent to the siege of Melos in B. C. 416, and enabled the Athenians to bring it to a successful issue. (Thuc. 5.116.)
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.