Nicostratus
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“There’s nobody who’s happy in all things,” according to Nicostratus, paraphrasing Euripides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Nicostratus, like a nobleman and a man of wealth as he was, kept many servants and hounds and hawks and took the utmost delight in the chase.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
And yet Hercules would esteem the brave though ugly Nicostratus as much as the beautiful Alcæus.
From Trips to the Moon by Thomas Francklin
"My judgment jumps with thine," quoth Nicostratus; "wherefore send without delay for a chirurgeon to draw it."
From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg
And this is mentioned by Nicostratus, in his Hierophant, and Archestratus the inventor of made dishes, whose testimony I will introduce at the proper season.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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