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general of the Achæan league, made Epaminondas his model. He slew Mechanʹidas, tyrant of Sparta, and was himself killed by poison.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.