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Lamachos
Lamachos was an Athenian general in the Peloponnese. He was included in several comedies by the Greek comedian Aristophanes, the Acharnians being the most famous of his appearances. Aristophanes used slapstick comedy to mock many Greek figures in the hope of advertising peace with the Spartacists. He and was exiled from Greece as a result of this. In 415 BC it was indicated with Alcibiade and Nicias to order the forwarding of Sicily and it was to continue in an energetic skirmish until its death in 414 BC.
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