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Epaminondas: tags: [personage]

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[362 BC]
An incorruptable Grecian politician who freed Thebes from Spartan subjugation, eventually becoming emperor of Greece. Montaigne considered him one of the worthiest and most excellent men that ever lived.

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after the Death of that Philosopher, he had governed and taught Epaminondas at Thebes: After which being gone over to the Romans, Justice had obliged him to espouse the party of the Younger Cato:

Cyrano de Bergerac. A Voyage to the Moon

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I had the honour to have much conversation with Brutus; and was told, “that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together:” a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)