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                    "reference": "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (ed. William Smith 1870), Wikisource | public domain",
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                    "description": "Proper name: NICANDER (Νίκανδρος), historical. &#8288;1. A king of Sparta, the eighth of the family of the Proclidae, the son of Charilaus, and the father of Theopompus. He was contemporary with Teleclus, and reigned twenty-eight or twenty-nine years, about B.C. 809—770. (Pausan. iii. 7. § 4. See Clinton, Fasti Hell. vols. i. and ii.) Some of his sayings are preserved by Plutarch (Lacon. Apophthegm. vol. ii, p. 155, ed. Tauchn.) (<a href='https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology\/Nicander_1.'>Wikisource<\/a> | public domain)"
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