title: Patrocles
text: # Patrocles
  
  Patrocles name may refer to:
  
  * Patrocles of Thurii (5th century BC), tragic poet
  * Patrocles teacher of rhetoric mentioned by Quintilian
  * Patrocles (geographer) (c. 312-261 BC), Macedonian general and writer under Seleucus and Antiochus
  * Noël Patrocles de Thoisy (died 1671), early governor general of the French Antilles
  * Patrocles, half-brother of Socrates
  