I.a young man of Abydos, who, in order to visit Hero in Sestos, swam nightly across the Hellespont, until he was drowned in a storm, Ov. H. 18 and 19; id. Tr. 3, 10, 41; Mart. 14, 181 et saep.—
II. Hence,
A.Lēandrĭcus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Leander, Leandrian: “natatus,” Fulg. Myth. 1 init.—