Adeimantus of Corinth

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According to the Suda, when Adeimantus called Themistocles a city-less man before the Battle of Salamis (because the Persians had destroyed Athens), Themistocles responded: "Who is city-less, when he has 200 triremes?"[2]

According to the Athenians he took to flight at the very commencement of the battle, but this was denied by the Corinthians and the other Greeks.[3][4]

Adeimantus' son Aristeus was the Corinthian commander at the Battle of Potidaea in 432 BC.[5]

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  2. Suda, § al.453
  3. Herodotus, Histories viii. 5, 56, 61, 94
  4. Plutarch, Themistocles 11
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