Xenarchus
(
Ξέναρχος).
1.
The son of Sophron, and, like his father, a celebrated writer of mimes. He lived during the
Rhegian War (B.C. 399-389), at the court of Dionysius (
Poët. 2).
2.
An Athenian comic poet of the Middle Comedy, who lived as late as the time of
Alexander the Great (
Suid. s. v.). Several fragments of his writings
are collected in Meineke's
Fragm. Com. Graec.