Sostratus
Σώστρατος
(Σώστρατος).
1. An Aeginetan, son of Laodamas, is alluded to by Herodotus as having made the greatest profits ever realized by a single commercial voyage, but unfortunately the period and other circumstances of this successful enterprise are wholly unknown to us. (Hdt. 4.152.)
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