Anticrates

Anticrates was a Spartan who, "according to Dioscorides," killed Epaminondas at the Battle of Mantineia in 362 BCE. The descendants of Anticrates are said to have been called Machairiones (Μαχαιρίωνες) by the Spartans, on account of his having struck Epaminondas with a machaira (that is a sword or large knife, μαχαίρα), Others attribute it to Gryllus, son of Xenophon.