Mĕnander or Mĕnandros (-us; Gr. gen. Menandru, acc. to Μενάνδρου, Ter. Eun., Heaut., and Ad.), i, m.,
I = Μένανδρος, a celebrated Greek comic poet, whom Terence took as his model , Cic. Fin. 1, 2, 4; Ter. And. 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.