Nicetas, Rhetor

Nicetas, Rhetor an Eastern ecclesiastic, by some thought to be identical with Nicetas Paphlago (q.v.), has, among other productions, the following ascribed to him: several Orations known to Allatius: — Diatriba in gloriosum 'Martyrern Panteleemnonem: — De Certamine et de Inventione, etc., reliquiarum S. Stephani Protomartyris: — Encomiuns in Magnum Nicholaum Myrobleptem et Thaumaturgum. None of these have been published. See Cave, Hist. Lit. D, p. 14.