Nicander
Νίκανδρος
(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. (Paus. 3.7.4. See Clinton, Fasti Hell. vols. i. and ii.) Some of his sayings are preserved by Plutarch Lacon. Apophthegm. vol. ii. p. 155, ed. Tauchn.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.