Anaxandrĭdes

, son of Leon and father to Cleomenes  I. and Leonidas, was king of Sparta. By the order of the Ephori, he divorced his wife, of whom he was extremely fond, on account of her barrenne ; and he was the first Lacedæmonian who had two wives. Hero dot us , bks. 1, 5, & 7.— Plutarch , Apophthegm at a Laconic a , bk. 1 .— Pausanias , bk. 3 , ch. 3 , . ――A son of Theopompus. Hero dot us , bk. 8 , ch. 131 .――A comic poet of Rhodes in the age of Philip and Alexander. He was the first poet who introduced intrigues and rapes upon the stage. He was of such a pa ionate disposition, that he tore to pieces all his compositions which met with no succe . He composed about 100 plays, of which 10 obtained the prize. Some fragments of his poetry remain in Athenæus. He was starved to death by order of the A then i ans, for satirizing their government. Aristotle , bk. 3 , Rhetoric .