Menandricus

Mĕnander or Mĕnandros ( -us; Gr. gen. Menandru, acc. to Menandrou, Ter. Eun., Heaut., and Ad.), i, m., = Menandros, 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.