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  Aeimnestus
Aeimnestus was a Spartan Soldier, famous because he killed the leader Mardonius.
In the Messenian war he fought a battle with but three hundred men against the whole forces of Messenians, and he perished together with the three hundred men.
The word aeimnestus has the meaning of unforgettable, in modern Greek language.
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 Aeimnestus - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
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Aeimnestus was a Spartan Soldier, famous because he killed the leader of a Persian army, Mardonius, at the battle of Plataea as told in book 9 of The History by Herodotus.
In the Messenian war he fought in a battle with three hundred men against the whole forces of Messenians, both Aeimnestus and his company were killed to the last man. The word aeimnestus has the meaning of unforgettable, in modern Greek language.
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 Herodotus - The Histories - Page 1479
Then too did Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, and grandson of Anaxandridas (I omit to recount his other ancestors, since they are the same with those of Leonidas), win a victory exceeding in glory all those to which our knowledge extends.
Mardonius was slain by Aeimnestus, a man famous in Sparta.
The same who in the Messenian war, which came after the struggle against the Medes, fought a battle near Stenyclerus with but three hundred men against the whole force of the Messenians, and himself perished, and the three hundred with him.
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 The Baldwin Project: The Story of the Persian War by Alfred J. Church
Thus did Mardonius and his host pay due penalty for the death of Leonidas, and Pausanias won a victory more glorious than any man had ever won before.
As for Mardonius himself, he was slain by one Aeimnestus, that perished afterward, he and three hundred Spartans with him, fighting against the whole host of the Messenians.
The Persians, being now put to flight by the Spartans, fled without any order to their camp, to the defense of trees which they had made.
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 The Baldwin Project: Historical Tales: Greek by Charles Morris
Mardonius, mounted on a white horse, and attended by a body-guard of a thousand select troops, was among the foremost warriors, and his followers distinguished themselves by their courage.
At length the spear of Aeimnestus, a distinguished Spartan, brought Mardonius dead to the ground.
His guards fell in multitudes around his body.
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