Nicarchus

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Nicarchus was a Greek poet and writer of the first century AD, best known for his epigrams, of which forty-two survive, and his satirical poetry. He was a contemporary of, and influence on, the better-known Latin writer Martial. A large proportion of his epigrams are directed against doctors. Some of his writings have been found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.

A fragment of Nicarchus:

The Raven

The gloom of death is on the raven’s wing,

The song of death is in the raven’s cries:

But when Demophilus begins to sing,

The raven dies.

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Nicarchus is also the name of a character in a play of Aristophanes, The Acharnanians.

Nicarchus was also the name of a Paionian king.