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Leonidas
[ lee-on-i-duhs ]
noun
- died 480 b.c., Greek hero: king of Sparta 489?–480.
Leonidas
/ lɪˈɒnɪˌdæs /
noun
- 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
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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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