Xenarchus

(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.