Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Nicander 1.

by William Alexander Greenhill

NICANDER (Νίκανδρος), historical. 1. A king of Sparta, the eighth of the family of the Proclidae, the son of Charilaus, and the father of Theopompus. He was contemporary with Teleclus, and reigned twenty-eight or twenty-nine years, about B.C. 809—770. (Pausan. iii. 7. § 4. See Clinton, Fasti Hell. vols. i. and ii.) Some of his sayings are preserved by Plutarch (Lacon. Apophthegm. vol. ii, p. 155, ed. Tauchn.)