Brasidas, a Spartan general, distinguished in the Peloponnesian war; his most celebrated action, the defeat at the expense of his life, in 422 B.C., of the flower of the Athenian army at Amphipolis, with a small body of helots and mercenaries.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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