Nicomachus (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Νικόμαχος) was a scribe who headed an Athenian committee, the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ἀναγραφεῖς τῶν νόμων, tasked with publishing the laws of Draco and Solon after the oligarchic revolution of 411 BC had been suppressed by the democrats. Lysias in a speech denouncing Nicomachus notes that the scribe's father was a public slave, and implies that he was a freedman.[1] His original commission of four months by various pretences extended to six years, throughout which, Lysias claims, he accepted money to interpolate or omit laws at the behest of others,[1] most notably to allow the oligarchs to oversee the trial that ended in Cleophon's death sentence.[2] Lysias notes that his position went unaudited for several years, whereas most magistracies and commissions underwent a review at the end of each prytany.[3]
Isocrates mentions a Nicomachus of Bate, who, in the same decade, served as an arbitrator in a property case arising out of the actions of the Thirty.[4]