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tween the "holy bishops" of the orthodox party (though Labbe and Cave would assign this also to
and the "philosophers "who embraced the opposite Leontius); and 3. The Lives of Leo VI. and
side. If so, the Leontius who took part in it was Alexander, the sons of Basil, and of Constantine
not our Leontius, but a much older person, bishop Porphyrogenitus and the commencement of the reign
of the Cappadocian Caesareia, contemporary of of Romanus II., by an unknown later hand. This
Athanasius, by whom he is mentioned, and author third part is more succinct than the former parts, and
of several works not now extant. 9. According to is in a great degree borrowed, with little variation,
Nicephorus Callisti (1. c.), our Leontius wrote also from known and existing sources. The first edition
" an admirable work" in thirty books, in which he of the Chronographia was in the Paris edition of the
entirely overthrew the tritheistic heresy of Joannes Byzantine historians. It was prepared for publiPhiloponus, and firmly established the orthodox cation by Combefis, and a Latin version was made
doctrine; but this work, if Nicephorus has cor- by him; but the work was not actually published
rectly described it, is lost. till 1685, some years after the editor's death. It
A homily, entitled Oratio in mediam Pentecostezm forms part of the volume entitled 01' sf-d eoepaiet in Caecum a Nativitate, neenon in iliad: Nolite yvly, Scriptores post Theophanem, and is in folio.
audicare secundum faciem, by " Leontius presbyter It was again published in the Venetian reprint
Constantinopolitanus," was published by Combefis, of that series, fol. A. D. 1729, and again under the
with a Latin version, in his A1uctariuml Novumn, editorial care of Bekker, 8vo. Bonn, 1838, with the
vol. i. fol. Paris, 1648. The editors of the Biblio- Latin version of Combifis. The life of Basil, by
theca Patrum (vol. ix. fol. Lyon, 1677), by placing Constantine Porphyrogenitus, was printed sepathis piece among the works of our Leontiflus, appear rately as early as 1653, in the.v/uZ/LIcTa of Allatius,
to identify the writer with him; and Cave, though 8vo. Cologn. [CONSTANTINUS VII.] (Theophan.
with hesitation, ascribes the homily to him. But Continuat. Prooem; Labbe, II. cc.; Vossius, De
it is not given by Galland; and Fabricius (Bibl. Historicis Graecis, lib. iv. c. 21; Fabric. Bibl.
Graec. vol. viii. p. 321) ascribes the homily to Graec. vol. vii. p. 681, vol. viii. p. 318; Cave,
Leontius of Neapolis. [No. 20.] A homily on Hist. Litt. vol. ii. p. 90.)
the parable of the good Samaritan, printed among 7. Of CONSTANTINOPLE. [No. 5.]
the supposititious works of Chrysostom (Opera, 8. Of CYPRUS. [No. 20.]
vol. vii. p. 506, ed. Savill), is ascribed by Allatius 9. EPIGRAMMATICUS. [No. 27.]
and Fabricius (Biblioth. Graec. vol. viii. p. 326, 10. EPIscoPvs. [Nos. 2, 16, 20.]
vol. x. p. 304) to " Leontius of Jerusalem," who is 11. FABULARUM SCRIPTOR. [No. 16.]
perhaps the same as our Leontius. There are 12. GRAMMATICUS. [No. 16.]
various homilies extant in MS. by " Leontius pres- 13. HAGIOPOLITa. [No. 20.]
byter Constantinopolitanus." (Photiusand Niceph. 14. HIEROSOLYMITrANUS, or of JERUSALEM.
Callisti, II. cc.; Canisius, Vita Leontii, apud Biblioth. [No. 5.]
Patrum, vol. ix. fol. Lyon, 1677, and Lectiones 15. Of LAMPSACUS. [LEo, No. 3.].ntiqwae, vol. i. pp. 527, &c., ed. Basnage; Cave, 16. LAscIvus. Ausonius commemorates (ProHist. Litt. vol. i. p. 543; Vossius, De Historicis fesso:r Burd iqal. Epigram. vii.) among the teachers
Graecis, lib. iv. c. 18; Fabric. Bibl. Grace. vol. viii. of Bordeaux, Leontius, a grammaticus or grammap. 309, &c., 318, vol. xii. p. 648; Oudin, de Scrip- ian, surnamed LASCIVUS, "a name," adds Ausotorib. et Scriptis Eccles. vol. i. col. 1462; Mansi, nius, "unworthy of the purity of his life," who
Concilia, vol. vii. col. 797, &c.; Galland. Biblioth. had been his friend and companion from early
t'alrum, vol. xii. Prolegom. c. 20.) youth. Fabricius is in one place (Bibl. Graec. vol.
6. Of BYZANTIUM. According to Labbe (De viii. p. 325) inclined to identify with this Leontius
Byzantinae Hiistoriae Scriptoribus Protrepticon; of Bordeaux a Leontius MYTHOGRAPHUS, or
(tclalogus Scriptorum, c. 28; and Delineatio Appa- SCRIPTOR FABULARTIM, a writer of somine merit,
ratUs, Pars II., all prefixed to the Paris edition of whose works were discovered and designed for
the Byzantine historians), the name of Leontius publication by Brassicanus; but the design was
has been given, but with very doubtful correctness, never executed, and the MS. has been either lost
to the otherwise anonymous continuator of the or destroyed. (Not. ad PetroniiArbitri Satyricon,
Chr-onographia of Theophanes. This writer, what- c. 121, p, 572, ed. Burmann, prima, or vol. i. p.
ever his name may have been, lived in the reign 741, ed. secunda.) Gesner also thought he had
of Constantine Porphyrogenitus [CONSTANTINUS somewhere read the work of one Leontius in which
VII.], with whom he was intimate, and who some of the myths of the poets were related. Sidodesired him to undertake the work, and supplied nius Apollinaris, a generation later than Ausonius,
him with the materials. The continuation, in its mentions a Pontius Leontius of Bordeaux or the
present form, comes down to the second year of neighbourhood (Epistol. lib. viii. 11, 12), whose
Romanus, son and successor of Constantine Por- castle at the confluence of the Garonne and Dorphyrogenitus, and probably reached, or was designed dogne he describes in one of his poems. (Carmen
to reach, to a later period, for it is imperfect, and xxii. Burgus Pontii Leontii). This Pontius Leonbreaks off abruptly. But the latter part of the tins is by Fabricius in another place (Bibl. Graec.
history is an addition by a later hand. In fact the vol. iv. p. 94, note w.) identified with the fabulist
work which is entitled Xpovo-ypaela, Chr/onographia, of Brassicanus. But the Leontii of Ausonius and
is composed of three parts, by three distinctwriters: Sidonius, however doubtful it may be which (if
1. The History of'the Emperors Leo V. the Arme- either) of them is the fabulist, must be. distinnian, Michael II. of Amorium, Theophilus the son guished from each other, as well as from two other
of Michael, and Michael III. and Theodora, the Leontii, bishops of Bordeaux, mentioned by Veson and widow of Theophilus, by the so-called nantius Honorius Fortunatus, bishop of Poitiers in
Leontius,from the materials supplied by Constantine the sixth century (Carmin. lib. iv. 9, 10); one of
Porphyrogenitus; 2. The Life of Basil the Mace- whom is especially commemorated by him for his
donian, by Constantine Porphyrogenitus himself pious care in the restoration of ruined churches,
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