Neocles
literary.
1. An Athenian, the father of Epicurus, was one of the cleruchi (
agri-peta, as Cicero,
de Nat. Deor. 1.26, calls him) sent to Samos after its conquest in the time of Pericles. Not finding his land sufficient for his maintenance, he set up a school. (
Strab. xiv. p.638;
D. L. 10.1.)