The New International Encyclopædia/Aristomenes

AR'ISTOM′ENES (Gk. Άριστομένης). A Messenian general who commanded the army of his country in the Second Messenian War. in the Seventh Century B.C. He upheld with success the Messenian cause for about seventeen years, but was finally defeated and went to Rhodes, where his son-in-law was one of the reigning princes. Many heroic deeds are related of Aristomenes.