with his brothers Codrus and Diodorus, destroyed Hegesias tyrant of Ephesus. =Anaxander=, of the family of the Heraclidæ, was son of Eurycrates and king of Sparta. The second Messenian war began in his reign, in which Aristomenes so egregiously signalized himself. His son was called Eurycrates. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 204.――_Plutarch_, _Apophthegmata Laconica_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 3; bk. 4, chs. 15 & 16.――――A general of Megalopolis, taken by the Thebans. =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 barrenness; and he was the first Lacedæmonian who had two wives. _Herodotus_, bks. 1, 5, & 7.――_Plutarch_, _Apophthegmata Laconica_, bk. 1.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 3, &c.――――A son of Theopompus. _Herodotus_, 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 passionate disposition, that he tore to pieces all his compositions which met with no success. 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 Athenians, for satirizing their government. _Aristotle_, bk. 3, _Rhetoric_. =Anaxarchus=, a philosopher of Abdera, one of the followers of Democritus, and the friend of Alexander. When the monarch had been wounded in a battle, the philosopher pointed to the place, adding, “That is human blood, and not the blood of a god.” The freedom of Anaxarchus offended Nicocreon, and after Alexander’s death, the tyrant, in revenge, seized the philosopher, and pounded him in a stone mortar with iron hammers. He bore this with much resignation, and exclaimed, “Pound the body of Anaxarchus, for thou dost not pound his soul.” Upon this Nicocreon threatened to cut his tongue, and Anaxarchus bit it off with his teeth, and spit it out into the tyrant’s face. _Ovid_, _Ibis_, li. 571.――_Plutarch_, _Convivium Septem Sapientium_, ch. 7.――_Diogenes Laërtius_, _Lives of Eminent Philosophers_.――_Cicero_, _Tusculanæ Disputationes_, bk. 2, ch. 22. ――――A Theban general. _Thucydides_, bk. 8, ch. 100. =Anaxarĕte=, a girl of Salamis, who so arrogantly despised the addresses of Iphis, a youth of ignoble birth, that the lover hung himself at her door. She saw this sad spectacle without emotion or pity, and was changed into a stone. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 14, li. 748. =Anaxēnor=, a musician, whom Marcus Antony greatly honoured, and presented with the tribute of four cities. _Strabo_, bk. 14. =Anaxias=, a Theban general. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 22.