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Cleomachus
(myth) Greece

Pharsalian coin

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Cleomachus & his lover

"And you know of course how it was that Cleomachus, the Pharsalian, fell in battle... When the war between the Eretrians and Chalcidians was at its height, Cleomachus had come to aid the latter with a Thessalian force; and the Chalcidian infantry seemed strong enough, but they had great difficulty in repelling the enemy's cavalry.

So they begged that high-souled hero, Cleomachus, to charge the Eretrian cavalry first. And he asked the youth he loved, who was by, if he would be a spectator of the fight, and he saying he would, and affectionately kissing him and putting his helmet on his head, Cleomachus, with a proud joy, put himself at the head of the bravest of the Thessalians, and charged the enemy's cavalry with such impetuosity that he threw them into disorder and routed them; and the Eretrian infantry also fleeing in consequence, the Chalcidians won a splendid victory.

However, Cleomachus got killed, and they show his tomb in the market place at Chalcis, over which a huge pillar stands to this day."

Plutarch

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