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Mĕnander or Mĕnandros (-us; Gr.

  1. I. gen. Menandru, acc. to Μενάνδρου, Ter. Eun., Heaut., and Ad.), i, m., = Μένανδρος, a celebrated Greek comic poet, whom Terence took as his model, Cic. Fin. 1, 2, 4; Ter. And. prol. 9; Prop. 3, 21, 28: nobilis comoediis, Phaedr. 5, 1, 9; Amm. 21, 4, 4.
    Form Menandros, Ov. Am. 1, 15, 18: also Menandrus, Vell. 1, 16, 3.
  2. II. A slave of Cicero, Cic. Fam. 16, 13.
  3. III. A freedman of T. Ampius Balbus, Cic. Fam. 13, 70.
    Hence,
    1. A. Mĕnandrēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the poet Menander, Menandrian, Prop. 2, 5 (6), 3.
    2. B. Mĕnandrĭcus, a, um, adj., the same: fluxus, Tert. Pall. 4.