Philopoemen

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Philopoemen (c. 253–182 BC)

Greek general of the Achaean League. He crushed the Spartans at Mantinea 208 BC and defeated Nabis, tyrant of Sparta, 192 BC. He was captured by the Messenians and executed.

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[*] Philopoemen, "the last of the Greeks," born 252 B.

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When Lacedaemon was brought into the league by Philopoemen, it was attended with an abolition of the institutions and laws of Lycurgus, and an adoption of those of the Achaeans.

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