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Aeimnestus () is an Ancient Greek word, also spelled and that means "unforgettable", literally "of everlasting memory". It was the name of multiple revered Greek warriors.
A soldier Aeimnestus killed the Persian general Mardonius by crushing Mardonius' head with a rock during the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC. The event was described in Book 9 of the Histories of Herodotus.Herodotus, Histories, ix. 64 Plutarch calls the same man "Arimnestus" (Ἀρίμνηστος).Plutarch, Aristides 19
Another Spartan by the same name led three hundred men against the whole Messenian army in the Messenian Wars; both he and his company were killed to the last man.
A general Arimnestos led his city's host in the battles of Marathon and Plataea.
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