Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Leonidas (historical) 1.

by William Smith

LEO′NIDAS or LEO′NIDES (Λεωνίδας, Λεωνίδης), historical. 1. A general of the Byzantines, who, when the citizens, during a siege of their town, flocked to the taverns instead of manning the walls, established a number of wine-shops on the ramparts themselves, and so kept his men, with some difficulty, at their posts (Ael. V. H. iii. 14; Athen. x. p. 442, c.). He may have been the same Leonidas whom Athenaeus mentions as a writer on fishing (Athen. i. 13, c.).

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