Manaechmus
or MENAECHMUS (
Μάναιχμος or
Μέναιχμος). 1.
A native of Sicyon, who lived in the time of the first Ptolemy.
He was the son of a man named Alcibius or Alcibiades.
He wrote an account of Alexander the Great; a treatise
περὶ τεχνιτῶν, quoted by Athenaeus, ii. p. 65a., and elsewhere; and a treatise entitled
Σικυωνιακά, quoted by Athenaeus, vi. p. 271d. Menaechmus is also quoted by the scholiast on Pindar (
Pind. N. 2.1,
9.30), and by Pliny,
Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 21. (Suid.
s. v. Μάναιχμος Vossius,
de Hist. Gr. p. 102, ed. Westermann.) [MENAECHMUS.]