Leonidas

[ lee-on-i-duhs ]

noun

1. died 480 b.c., Greek hero: king of Sparta 489?–480.

Leonidas

/ lɪˈɒnɪˌdæs /

noun

1. Leonidas480 bcMSpartanPOLITICS: hereditary ruler died 480 bc , king of Sparta (?490–480), hero of the Battle of Thermopylae, in which he was killed by the Persians under Xerxes

Example Sentences

Leonidas allegedly spoke those newly prominent words in the narrow pass of Thermopylae, 2,500 years ago this month.

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Later again, he turned to the more ancient Greeks, and the result 193 was the most academic of his pictures, his “Leonidas.”

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Leonidas, to the threat of the Persians that their forest of arrows would darken the sun.

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The act of Leonidas satisfies the moral sense, the reason; it enraptures the aesthetical sense, the imagination.

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Leonidas, successor to Pimen in the archiepiscopate of Novgorod, was sewn up in a bear-skin and worried to death by hounds.

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In Rajistan every small kingdom had its Thermopylae, and every little town has produced its Leonidas.

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