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Nicocreon

Νικοκρέων). A tyrant of Cyprus in the age of Alexander the Great. A fabulous story is related of his having caused the philosopher Anaxarchus to be pounded alive in a mortar (Diod.xix. 59-79; Cic. Tusc. ii. 22, 52; Diog. Laert. ix. 59).

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    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.22
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