Xenarchus

(Ξέναρχος), an Achaean, who was sent to Rome as an ambassador by the Achaeans, for the purpose of renewing their alliance with the Romans, and of superintending the progress of the negotiations with reference to the Lacedaemonians. He was surprised into affixing his signature to the agreement drawn up on the latter subject at the suggestion of Flamininus. (Plb. 24.4.) He found means to enter into friendly relations with Perseus; and it was when he was general of the Achaeans (B. C. 174), that Perseus got his letter about the runaway slaves of the Achaeans laid before the assembly. (Liv. 41.28.) [C.P.M]

(Ξέναρχος), literary.

1. A son of Sophron, and, like his father, a celebrated writer of mimes. He flourished during the Rhegian War (B. C. 399-389), at the court of Dionysius, who is said to have employed him to ridicule the Rhegians, as cowards, in his poems. (Phot. and Suid. s. v. Ῥηγίνους.) His mimes are mentioned, with those of Sophron, by Aristotle (Poet. 2). They were in the Doric dialect. (Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. s. a. 393 ; Sophron.)

2. An Athenian comic poet of the Middle Comedy, who was contemporary with Timocles, and lived as late as the time of Alexander the Great. The following titles of his plays have been preserved, with some considerable fragments : Βουταλίων, Δίδυμοι, Πένταθλος, Πορφύρα, Πρίαπος, Σκύθαι, Στρατιώτης, Ὕπνος. (Suid. s.v. Ath. passim.) Fabricius and others have confounded him with the mimographer, who lived sixty or seventy years earlier, and wrote in a different dialect. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 505; Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. Introd p. xlv.; Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i.p. 434, vol. iii. pp. 614-625, Editio Minor, pp. 811-815.)

3. Of Seleuceia in Cilicia, a Peripatetic philosopher and grammarian. in the time of Strabo, who heard him. Xenarchus left home early, and devoted himself to the profession of teaching. first at Alexandria, afterwards at Athens, and last at Rome, where he enjoyed the friendship of Areius, and afterwards of Augustus; and he was still living, in old age and honour, when Strabo wrote. (Strab. xiv. p.670.) He is also mentioned by Simplicius (de Caclo, 1), and by Alexander Aphrodisiensis (de Anim. p. 154; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 510; Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 554). [P.S]

(Ξέναρχος). (1) The son of Sophron, and, like his father, a celebrated writer of mimes. He lived during the Rhegian War (B.C. 399-389), at the court of Dionysius (Arist. Poët. 2).

(2) An Athenian comic poet of the Middle Comedy, who lived as late as the time of Alexander the Great ( Suid. s. v.). Several fragments of his writings are collected in Meineke's Fragm. Com. Graec.