LENTULUS, I. P. CORNELIUS SURA , was consul 7I B. C., and expelled for his infamous character from the Senate 63. He joined the Catilinarians, and was strangled by the Senate's orders. 2. P. CORNELIUS SPINTHER, titer, when consul, 57 B.c., proposed Cicero's recall from exile. 3. L. CORNELIUS, Cons, cor-ne'-ii-us, CMS, consul 49 B.C., supported • Pompey, and was put to death in Egypt. LEONIDAS, I. Son of King Anaxandrldes, and of the Eurysthenidm family, succeeded his half-brother Cleorne'nes I. as king of Sparta, 491 Lc.. On Xerxes' invasion, 480, Leonidas led 30o Spartans and 4,7oo other Greeks to defend the pass of ThermopVm, which he so successfully held that he thought he might with safety send back the 4,700, except the Theban and Thespians ; but the Persians were led by a traitor, the Malian Ephialtes, through the Anopma pass. When Leonidas learned of their approach, he advanced to at tack them on the mountain, and was killed. Of the 30o Spartans, all perished save one, who was treated with insults and reproaches no his return to Sparta. Temples were raised to the fallen hero, and an annual festival in stituted. 2. A king of Sparta, succeeded 256 B.C.
LEott-rtum, itted-ti-unt. r. A celebrated courtezan of Athens, frequented the school of Epicurus, which gave- rise to much scandal, and wrote a work on Epicureanism against Theophrastus, praised by Cicero for its pure and elegant Attic style. She bore a daughter,
Dana, wife of Sophron. 2. Or LEON TIM, le-on-11'-ni, a town north-west of Syracuse, five miles front the coast, colonized by Chalcidians from Naxos, 730 B.C. (See LJESTRYGONE.S.) 1/-0-tf-chl-tfis, son of Mena res, of the Proclidm family, was king of Sparta B.C. ; he commanded the Greek fleet at the defeat of the Persians off Mycale, 47g. LErin us, I. M. )Entit.i us, ee-mie-i-us, was consul, 46 D.C., with Ciesar, who net him over Narbonense Gaul and Hither Spain, 44. After Cmsar's death he was made Pontlfex Maximus in his room, and then set out for his provinces, Gaul and Spain, and when Antony took refuge with him, 43, he re-crossed the Alps with his troops, and was met by Octavianus (Augustus), when the three formed the famous Second Triumvirate. After Philippi, 42, Lepidus received Africa, from which he returned, 36, to aid Augustus in- Sicily, against Sextus Pompey. Lepidus then attempted to appro priate Sicily to himself, but was subdued, deposed, and placed in exile at Circeii ; he retained the office of Pontifex Maximus till his death, 03, when Augustus succeeded him. 2. H., the father of (t), was consul 78 D.C. ; attempted by force to annul Sulla's legisla tion, but was subdued by Pompey and Catillus.