Echecrates

• a Pythagorean philosopher, a contemporary of Plato, Cic. Fin. 5, 29, 87.

(Ἐχεκράτης).

1. A Thessalian, was one of those whom the ministers of Ptolemy Philopator, when they were preparing for war with Antiochus the Great in B. C. 219, employed in the levying of troops and their arrangement into separate companies. He was entrusted with the command of the Greek forces in Ptolemyi's pay, and of all the mercenary cavalry, and did good service in the war, especially at the battle of Raphia in B. C. 217. (Plb. 5.63, 65, 82, 85.)

2. Son of Demetrius of Cyrene by Olympias of Larissa, and brother of Antigonus Doson. He had a son named Antigonus after his uncle. (Liv. 40.54; see vol. i. pp. 187, 189, b.) [E.E]

(Ἐχεκράτης), the name of three Pythagorean philosophers, mentioned by Iamblichus. (Vit. Pyth. ad fin.)

1. A Locrian, one of those to whom Plato is said to have gone for instruction. (Cic. de Fin. 5.29.) The name Caetus in Valerius Maximus (8.7, Ext. 3) is perhaps an erroneous reading for Echecrates.

2. A Tarentine, probably the same who is mentioned in Plat. Ep. 9.

3. Of Phlius, was contemporary with Aristoxenus the Peripatetic. D. L. 8.46; comp. Gel. 4.11; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. i. p. 861.) [E.E]

• father of Eetion: Hdt. 5.92