Aeimnestus
(
*)Aei/mnhstos), a Spartan, who killed Mardonius in the battle of Plataea, B. C. 479, and afterwards fell himself in the Messenian war. (
Hdt. 9.64.) The Spartan who killed Mardonius, Plutarch (
Plut. Arist. 19) calls Arimnestus (
Ἀρίμνηστος).