Eu'crates
(
Εὐκράτης), the demagogue, according to the Scholiast, alluded to by Aristophanes (
Aristoph. Kn. 130), where he speaks of a flax-seller who ruled next but one before Cleon. (Comp.
Equit. 254.)
He might possibly be the same as the father of Diodotus (
Thuc. 3.41), who spoke against Cleon in the Mytilenaean debate, B. C. 427, but it is not very probable. The Eucrates mentioned in the
Lysistrata (103) of Aristophanes as a general in Thrace is a different person, and probably the the same as the brother of Nicias spoken of below.
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