Aristomenes (Aristom`enes) , a mythical king of Messenia, celebrated for his struggle with the Spartans, and his resistance to them on Mount Ira for 11 years, which at length fell to the enemy, while he escaped and was snatched up by the gods; died at Rhodes.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Aristode`mus * Aristophanes