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754 LEONTIADES. LEONTISCUS.
in person, was totally defeated, and he himself fell, ducted over Callidromus, Leontiades and the force
covered with wounds, after displaying in the com- under. his command surrendered to the enemy and
bat his accustomed valour. (Diod. xviii. 12, 14, obtained quarter. Herodotus tells us, however,
15; Plut. Eum. 3, Phoc. 25; Justin. xiii. 5.) that some of them were nevertheless slain by the
The only personal traits recorded to us of Leon- barbarians, and that most of the remainder, includnatus are his excessive passion for hunting, and his ing Leontiades, were branded as slaves by the order
love of magnificence and display, the latter a of Xerxes. (Herod. vii. 233.) Plutarch contraquality common to most of his brother captains in dicts this (de Herod. Mal. 33),-if, indeed, the
the service of Alexander. (Plut. Alex. 40; Aelian. treatise be his,-and also says that Anaxander,
V. H. ix. 3; Athen. xii. p. 539.) and not Leontiades, commanded the Thebans at
2. Another officer in the service of Alexander, Thermopylae. [EURYMACHUS.]
a native of Aegae, and son of Antipater. (Arr. 2. Son of Eurymachus. and grandson, apparently,
Ind. 18.) The anecdote related by Arrian (Anab. of the above, was one of the polemarchs at Thebes,
iv. 12. ~ 3.) may perhaps refer to this Leonnatus, in B. c. 382, when the Spartan commander, Phoerather than the preceding. bidas, stopped there on his way against Olynthus.
3. A Macedonian officer in the service of Pyrrhus, Unlike Ismenias, his democratic colleague, Leonking of Epeirus, who saved the life of that monarch tiades courted Phoebidas from the period of his
at the battle of Heraclea, B. c. 280. (Plut. Pyrrs. arrival, and, together with Archias and Philip, the
16; Dionys. Exe. xviii. 2, 3.) [E. H. B.] other chiefs of the oligarchical party, instigated him
LEONNO'RIUS, one of the leaders of the to seize the Cadmeia with their aid. This enterGauls in their invasion of Macedonia and the ad- prise having been effected on a day when the
joining countries. When the main body under women were keeping the Thesmophoria in the
Brennus marched southwards into Macedonia and citadel, and the council therefore sat in or near the
Greece (B. C. 279), Leonnorius and Lutarius led a agora, Leontiades proceeded to the council and andetachment, 20,000 strong, into Thrace, where nounced what had taken place, with an assurance
they ravaged the country to the shores of the that no violence was intended to such as remained
Hellespont, compelled the Byzantines to pay them quiet. Then, asserting that his office of polemarch
tribute, and made themselves masters of Lysima- gave him power to apprehend any one under suschia. The rich Asiatic shores of the Hellespont picion of a capital offence, he caused Ismenias to
afforded them a tempting prospect; and while be seized and thrown into prison. Archias was
Leonnorius returned to Byzantium, in order to forthwith appointed to the office thus vacated, and
compel the inhabitants of that city to give him the Leontiades went to Sparta and persuaded the Lameans of transporting his troops to Asia, Lutarius cedaemonians to sanction what had been done.
contrived to capture a few vessels, with which he Accordingly, they sent commissioners to Thebes,
conveyed all the force remaining under his com- who condemned Ismenias to death, and fully estamand across the Hellespont. While Leonnorius blished Leontiades and his faction in the governwas still before Byzantium, Nicomedes, king of ment under the protection of the Spartan garrison.
Bithynia, being in want of support in his war with (Xen. thell. v. ii. ~~ 25-36; Diod. xv. 20; Plut..
Antiochus, agreed to take him and his troops, as Ages. 23, Pelop. 5, de Gen. Soc. 2.) In this position,
well as those of Lutarius, into his pay, and fur- exposed to the hostility and machinations of some
nished them with the means of passing over into 400 democratic exiles, who had taken refuge at
Asia (B.C. 278). They first assisted him against Athens (Xen. Hell. v. 2. ~ 31), Leontiades, watchhis rival, Zipoetes, in Bithynia; after which they ful, cautious, and energetic, presented a marked conmade plundering excursions through various parts trast to Archias, his voluptuous colleague, whose
of Asia; and ultimately established themselves in reckless and insolent profligacy he discountenanced,
the province, called thenceforth from the name of as tending obviously to the overthrow of their joint
its barbarian conquerors, Galatia. No farther power. His unscrupulousness, at the same time,
mention is made of either of the leaders after they was at least equal to his other qualifications for a
had crossed into Asia. (Memnon. c. 19, ed. Orell.; party-leader; for we find him sending emissaries
Liv. xxxviii. 16; Strab. xii. p. 566.) [E. H. B.] to Athens to remove the chief of the exiles by asLEONTEUS (Asoyrevts), a son of Coronus, and sassination, though Androcleidas was the only one
prince of the Lapithae. In conjunction with Poly- who fell a victim to the plot. In B. a. 379, when
poetes, he led the Lapithae, in 40 ships, against the refugees, associated with Pelopidas, had entered
Troy, where he took part in the games at the funeral on their enterprise for the deliverance of Thebes,
of Patroclus. (Hom. II. ii. 745, &c., xii. 130, &c., Pelopidas himself, with Cephisodorus, Damocleidas,
xxiii. 837, &c.) [L. S.] and Phyllidas, went to the house of Leontiades,
LEONTEUS (AeovTels), of Argos, was a tragic while Mellon and others were dealing with
poet and the slave of Juba, king of Mauritania, Archias. The house was closed for the night, and
who ridiculed his Hypsipyle in an epigram preserved it was with some difficulty that the conspirators
by Athenaeus (viii. p. 343, e. f.). [P. S.] gained admittance. Leontiades met them at the
LEONTI'ADES (Aseovrda'8ls). 1. A Theban, door of his chamber, and killed Cephisodorus, who
of noble family, commanded at Thermopylae the was the first that entered; but, after an obstinate
forces supplied by Thebes to the Grecian army. struggle, he was himself despatched by Pelopidas.
(Herod. vii. 205; comp. Diod. xi. 4.) They came (Xen. Hell. v. 4. ~~ 1-7; Plut. Pel. 6, 11, Ages.
unwillingly, according to Herodotus, and therefore 24, de Gen. Soc. 4, 6, 31; Diod. xv. 25.) It may
were retained by Leonidas, rather as hostages than be remarked that Plutarch calls him, throughout,
allies, when he sent away the main body of the Leontidas (Schn. ad Xen. Hell. v. 2. ~ 25). [E. E.]
Greeks. (Herod. vii. 220-222; but see Plut. de LEONTISCUS (AeoYrTfLKoE), a son of Ptolemy
Herod. Mal. 31; Thirlwall's Greece, vol. ii. p. 287.) Soter, by the celebrated Athenian courtezan,
In the battle-a hopeless one for the Greeks- Thais. He was taken prisoner by. Demetrius
which was fought after the Persians had been con- Poliorcetes in the great sea fight off Cyprus (B. c.