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Lĕōnĭdas (nom. Lĕōnĭda, Just. 2, 11, 2), ae, m., = Λεωνίδας.

  1. I. A king of Sparta, who fell at Thermopylæ, Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 97; 2, 19, 62; id. Tusc. 1, 42, 101; 1, 49, 116; Nep. Them. 3.
  2. II. The name of a slave, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 43 al.; v. also Leonides.

Lĕōnĭdes, ae, m.

  1. I. An instructor of Alexander the Great, Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 62; Quint. 1, 1, 9.
  2. II. A teacher of the younger Cicero at Athens, Cic. Att. 14, 16, 3; 15, 16, A; id. Fam. 16, 21, 5.

1. lĕōnīnus, a, um, adj. [2. leo], of or belonging to a lion, a lion’s.

  1. I. Lit.: concede audacter ab leonino cavo, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 47: species, a lion-like appearance, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 3: pellis, Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 142: jubae, id. ib.: adeps, id. 24, 17, 102, § 165.
  2. * II. Trop.: leonina societas, a lion’s partnership, i. e. in which one party gets all the profit and the other all the loss: Aristo refert: Cassium respondisse, societatem talem coiri non posse, ut alter lucrum tantum, alter damnum sentiret, et hanc societatem leoninam solitum appellare, Dig. 17, 2, 29, § 2.

2. Lĕōnīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the emperor Leo, Leonine: lex, Cod. Just. 1, 3, 50.