(), a Spartan who, according to Dioscourides
(apud Plut. Ages. 35), killed Epaminondas at the battle of Mantineia. The
descendants of Anticrates are said to have been called Μαχαιρίωνες by the Lacedaemonians, on account of his having struck Epaminondas
with a μαχαίρα (Plut. l.c.), but
Pausanias (8.11.4) mentions Machaerion, a Lacedaemonian or
Mantinean, to whom this honour was ascribed by some. Others attribute it to Gryllus, the son
of Xenophon. [GRYLLUS.]