Nicostratus
Americannoun
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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
"I wonder what it could be," returned Nicostratus; "is it perchance that I have a decayed tooth in my jaw?"
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
As for Nicostratus, he marvelled sore and said, 'Verily, Pyrrhus, methinketh thou dreamest.'
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John
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 Payne, John
But Nicostratus uses the word in the singular number, in his Hesiod— A bembras, an anchovy, and a hepsetus.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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