Leonides, A king of the Lacedemonians, which did incredible feates of warre againste Xerxes king of Persia: and sinally was slaine at the straytes called Thermopylæ, in defending Greece, with 4000. Greekes onely, against tenne hunded thousand of the host of Xerxes. There was also anotherLeonides, which was tutour to king Abexander, when hee was a childe,
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Lĕōnĭdes, ae, m.I.An instructor of Alexander the Great, Plin. 12, 14, 32, 62; Quint. 1, 1, 9.—II.A teacher of the younger Cicero at Athens, Cic. Att. 14, 16, 3; 15, 16, A; id. Fam. 16, 21, 5.