Alexicrates

Alexicrates (Ancient Greek: polytonic|Ἀλεξικράτης) was a Pythagorean philosopher who lived at the time of Plutarch (that is, around the turn of the 1st century),cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | authorlink = | title = Alexicrates | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 128 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=143] and whose disciples continued to observe the ancient diet of the Pythagoreans, abstaining from fish altogether. [Plutarch, "Sympos." viii. p. 728] Another person of this name occurs in Plutarch. [Plutarch, "Life of Pyrrhus" 5]

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