Nico'stratus
4. A rhetorician, a native of Macedonia.
He lived in the time of M. Antoninus.
According to Suidas (
s. v.) he was the author of the following works:
Δεκαμυθία, Εἰκόνες, Πολυμυθ́ια, Δαλαττουργοί, and several other works, encomia on the emperor, and various others. Some of his
μύθοι were in a dramatic form. Philostratus (
de Vit. Sophist. 2.31 ) praises the elegance of his style. (Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 135.)