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Naucrătes

Ναυκράτης). A Greek rhetorician of Erythrae, a pupil of Isocrates. With others he competed for a prize offered by Artemisia (q.v.) to the orator who should deliver the best funeral discourse in honour of her husband Mausolus, and which was won by Theopompus (Gell. x. 18).

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