Nicostratus
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There were several people called Nicostratus:
- Nicostratus (comic poet), son of Aristophanes, a poet of the Middle Comedy (4th century BC).
- Against Nicostratus is an oration by Demosthenes.
- On the Estate of Nicostratus is an oration by Isaeus.
- Nicostratus of Cilicia, a victor at the Olympic games (Pausanias 5.21.10)
- Nicostratus son of Xenoclides of Heraea, an Olympic victor: (Pausanias 6.3.11)
- Nicostratus the son of Theosdotides, mentioned in Plato's Apology of Socrates.
- Nicostratus of Argivia, who instituted a custom of throwing torches into a pit in honour of the Maid (Pausanias 2.22.3)
- Nicostratus of Rhodes, a Rhodian commander in the 2nd century BC
- According to the Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles' Electra (539), Apollodorius 3.10.8a, a son of Helen and Menelaos.
- According to Pausanias 2.18.6, a son of Menelaos and a slave girl
- Nicostratus of Trapezus, a sophist philosopher, mentioned in Evagrius Scholasticus' Ecclesiastical History.
- Saint Nicostratus, one of the Four Crowned Martyrs, died ca. 304, feast day 8 November.
- Saint Nicostratus, a saint converted by Saint Sebastian (see Mark and Marcellian)
- Nicostrato the painter, a character in Boccaccio's Decameron