Menander, A famous poet, a writer of comedies. Also a notable heretike, which folowed Simon Magus.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Mĕnander or Mĕnandros (-us; Gr. gen. Menandru, acc. to *mena/ndrou, Ter. Eun., Heaut., and Ad.), i, m., = *me/nandros, 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.