Alexamenus of Aetolia

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Alexamenus (Gr. Ἀλεξαμενός), a general of the Aetolians, 196 BC, who was sent by the Aetolians, in 192 BC, during the War against Nabis, to obtain possession of Lacedaemon.[1] He succeeded in his object, and killed Nabis, the tyrant of Lacedaemon; but the Lacedaemonians rising against him shortly after, he and most of his troops were killed.[2][3]

Notes

  1. ^ Polybius, xviii. 26
  2. ^ Livy, xxxv. 34-36.
  3. ^ Smith, William (1867). "Alexamenus". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 110. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0119.html. 

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).