NICERATE(S). Niceratus, fl. fifth century B.C., was the son of Nicias, the famous Athenian who became strategos or general after Pericles's death in 429 B.C. Niceratus was put to death during the reign of the Thirty Tyrants, 404-403 B.C. (Diodorus Siculus XIV.5). Jerome says that his wife committed suicide after his death, Epistola adversus Jovinianum (Letter Against Jovinian) I.44 (PL 23: 274). C.H. Oldfather points out that Jerome knew Diodorus Siculus's work (The Library of History, I.vii).

Dorigen thinks that Nicerate's wife is exemplary of wifely fidelity, FranklT 1437. [Dorigen]

Nicerates, the ME genitive case, occurs medially.