Nicander
(
*Ni/kandros), 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.)