Niceratus · Atlas

in the texts

SymposiumClassical · Greek

A banquet guest whose father made him memorize Homer and who can recite the Iliad and Odyssey.

What about you, Hermogenes?

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No, indeed, answered Niceratus;

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Niceratus also was in his company.

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On the EmbassyClassical · Greek

Father of Nicias, named in a patronymic.

Having given up our land to be ravaged, and suffering great privations, we longed for peace, and finally concluded it through Nicias, the son of Niceratus.

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Against CononClassical · Greek

A witness who allegedly saw Conon beat and maltreat the plaintiff.

—as though you would believe them off-hand, and would have no regard to the truth of the matter that, to begin with, Lysistratus and Paseas and Niceratus and Diodorus, who have expressly testified that they saw me being beaten by Conon, stripped of my cloak, and suffering all the other forms of brutal outrage I experienced—men, remember, who were unacquainted with me and who happened on the affair …

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On the False EmbassyClassical · Greek

Person whose uncle Thrasybulus is referenced in the argument to Eubulus.

At the trial of your cousin Hegesilaus, and recently at that of Thrasybulus, an uncle of Niceratus, before the first vote of the jury you would not even answer when you were called;

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LachesClassical · Greek

Son of Nicias, whom Nicias offers to place in Socrates' charge for education.

I should be only too glad to entrust him with Niceratus, if he should consent:

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RepublicClassical · Greek

Son of Nicias, part of the group that joins Socrates and Glaucon.

So we will, said Glaucon, and shortly after Polemarchus came up and Adeimantus, the brother of Glaucon, and Niceratus, the son of Nicias, and a few others apparently from the procession.

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HellenicaClassical · Greek

Wealthy Athenian, son of Nicias, whose arrest by the Thirty is cited by Theramenes as turning men of his kind into enemies.

I also knew, when Niceratus, the son of Nicias, was arrested,—a man of wealth who, like his father, had never done anything to curry popular favour,—that those who were like him would become hostile to us.

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