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Menander

a celebrated Greek comic poet, whom Terence took as his model

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Where it lives

De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
De Anima 2 · 0.84/10k
Noctes Atticae 7 · 0.63/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Mĕnander — Lewis & Short

Mĕnander or Mĕnandros (-us; Gr.

I gen. Menandru, acc. to *mena/ndrou, Ter. Eun., Heaut., and Ad.), i, m., = *me/nandros, 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.—

II A slave of Cicero, Cic. Fam. 16, 13.—

III A freedman of T. Ampius Balbus, Cic. Fam. 13, 70.—Hence,

A Mĕnandrēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the poet Menander, Menandrian, Prop. 2, 5 (6), 3.—

B Mĕnandrĭcus, a, um, adj., the same: fluxus, Tert. Pall. 4.

Where it came from

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