Alexamenus

Alexamenus (Gr. polytonic|Ἀλεξαμενός) was the name of several people from ancient Greek history:cite encyclopedia | last = Smith | first = William | authorlink = William Smith (lexicographer) | title = Alexamenus | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 110 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0119.html ]
*Alexamenus, a general of the Aetolians, 196 BC, who was sent by the Aetolians, in 192 BC, during the War against Nabis, to obtain possession of Lacedaemon. [Polybius, xviii. 26] He succeeded in his object, and killed Nabis, the tyrant of Lacedaemon; but the Lacedaemonians rising against him shortly after, he and most of his troops were killed. [Livy, xxxv. 34-36.]
*Alexamenus of Teos, who was, according to Aristotle in his work on poets, the first person who wrote dialogues in the Socratic style before the time of Plato. [Athenaeus, xi. p. 505,b. c.] [Diogenes Laërtius, iii. 48]

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