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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Publication by Eugene Vanderpool of the ostrakon with the name (Inv. No. P 27691) vindicates an inference made by Gustav Gilbert, Beiträge zur innern Geschichte Athens, 144 f. There he claimed that Nicostratus son of Dieitrephes (P.A. 11011) and Nicostratus (P.A. 11051), who is mentioned by Aristophanes, Wasps 81 f, were identical. Gilbert supposed that the qualities implied of Nicostratus in that passage were of the type to endear him to Nicias.
1 Hesperia xxxvii (1968), 118 f.Google Scholar
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The preceding lines make it clear that Nicostratus' guess at the is shaped by his own persona.
3 Thus Nicostratus was a colleague in the itrategia of his fellow tribesman Thucydides ion of Olorus in 424/3 and of Alcibiades in J. 18/17: two more cases of double representaion.