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Ἀριμνήστου. Plutarch (Aristid. 19) says Arimnestus slew Mardonius by striking him with a stone, but a distinguished Spartiate would be unlikely to use a stone as a weapon. Stenyclarus is the name given to the northern or upper plain of Messenia, divided from the southern by low hills, as well as to the deserted town once the capital of the district.

Arimnestus fell in the Helot revolt known as the third Messenian war, probably in its opening engagement (464 B. C.).

Macan, reading Ἀειμνήστου, thinks he may have been a Plataean ‘well known in Sparta’, since Thucydides tells us of a Lacon, son of Aeimnestus at Plataea (iii. 52) and also of a Plataean contingent sent to help Sparta in the Helot revolt (iii. 54). But how came a Plataean to be fighting among the Spartans, and not on the other wing? Cf. however ch. 72. 2 n.

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