1st century AD) was a Greek epigrammatist active at Rome during the reigns of Nero and Vespasian.
[1][2] Leonidas informs us that he was born on the banks of the Nile,[3] whence he went to Rome,[4] and there taught grammar for a long time without attracting any notice, but ultimately he became very popular, and obtained the patronage of the imperial family.
[5] In the Greek Anthology, forty-three epigrams are ascribed to him, but some of these belong to Leonidas of Tarentum.
[5] According to William Smith, the epigrams of Leonidas of Alexandria are "of a very low order of merit".
[5] Several of them are distinguished by the conceit of having an equal number of letters in each distich; these are called ἰσόψηφα ἐπιγράμματα.