Leonidas

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. VH 3.14; Athen. 10.442c.). He may have been the same Leonides whom Athenaeus mentions as a writer on fishing (Athen. 1.13c.).