A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Μενέλαος), a Greek mathematician, a native of Alexandria.

Menelaus is mentioned by Pappus, Proclus, and Ptolemaeus, who, in his Magna Syntaxis (p. 170), says that he made some astronomical observations at Rome in the first year of the emperor Trajan (A. D. 98). He is probably the same with the Menelaus introduced by Plutarch in his dialogue De Facie in Orbe Lunae, p. 930.

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