Menedemus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Mĕnĕdēmus, i, m., = Μενέδημος.

I An Eretrian philosopher, a disciple of Plato , Cic. Ac. 2 ( Luc. ), 42, 129.—

II An Athenian rhetorician in the time of Crassus , Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 85.—

III A peripatetic philosopher from Rhodes , Gell. 13, 5, 3.—

IV A Greek admitted to the privileges of citizenship, but afterwards executed , Cic. Att. 15, 19, 2.—

V A general of Alexander the Great , Curt. 7, 6, 13; 7, 7, 15.—

VI The name of a man, one of the Dramatis Personae in Ter. Heaut.