Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Amorgus, Amphicrătes

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Amphicrătes

（Ἀμφικράτης).

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A biographer, who, according to Diogenes Laertius (Vit. Aristip.), was condemned to die by poison. See Athenaeus, xiii. 5.

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An Athenian orator, who, being banished from his country, retired to Seleucia on the Tigris, and took up his residence there under the protection of Cleopatra , daughter of Mithridates. He starved himself to death, because suspected by this princess of treason.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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