Menander
342?–291 b.c., Greek writer of comedies.
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How to use Menander in a sentence
The Milinda Panda mentions the royal astrologer as one of the principal functionaries of Menander.
Menander Euripides Theocritus Thucydides was playing close by the pasture-bars.
The Story of Opal | Opal WhiteleyBut nothing can be inferred from this declamation, except, perhaps, that he did not know whether Menander still existed or not.
And Menander, in his Trophonius, uses the word in the same sense.
Menander too mentions him in his Cecryphalus, calling him Pternocopis only.
British Dictionary definitions for Menander
/ (məˈnændə) /
?160 bc –?120 bc, Greek king of the Punjab. A Buddhist convert, he reigned over much of NW India
?342–?292 bc, Greek comic dramatist. The Dyskolos is his only complete extant comedy but others survive in adaptations by Terence and Plautus
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