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Aeimnestus
Aeimnestus was a Spartan Soldier, famous because he killed the leader Mardonius, as told in book 9 of The History by Herodotus. 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.
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