A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(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.)