Aeimnestus
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Aeimnestus (Template:Langx) is an Ancient Greek word, also spelled Script error: No such module "lang". and Script error: No such module "lang". that means "unforgettable", literally "of everlasting memory". It was the name of multiple revered Greek warriors.
A Spartan soldier Aeimnestus killed the Persian general Mardonius by crushing Mardonius' head with a rock during the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC. The event was described in Book 9 of the Histories of Herodotus.[1] Plutarch calls the same man "Arimnestus" (Script error: No such module "Lang".).[2]
Another Spartan by the same name led three hundred men against the whole Messenian army in the Messenian Wars; both he and his company were killed to the last man.[3]
A Plataean general Arimnestos led his city's host in the battles of Marathon and Plataea.
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