A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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i. Epi pY anii is mentioned by Theodore Stiidita Theodosius II. of A. D. 425, Leontius, a jurist.
in his Antirrheticus Secundus, ap. Sirmond. Opera, was named among other professors at Constantivol. v. p, 130. (Concilia, II. cc.; Fabric. Biblioth. nople, and was honoured with a comitiva primi
Grace. vol. viii. p. 320, &c.; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. ordinis, a dignity which thenceforth was only to be
p. 550; Oudin, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, vol. acquired by 20 years' service. (Cod. Theod. 6. tit.
i. col. 1575, &c.; Vossius, de Historicis Graecis, 21. s. un.) Perhaps he was the first legal prolib. ii. c. 23; Le Quien, Oriens Christianus, vol. fessor at Constantinople, for in former constitutions
ii. col. 1062; Acta Sanctor. Jul. vol. i. p. 131.) no jurist is named among the professors (Cod.
21. PHILOSOPHUS, or SOPHISTA, father of Athe- Theod. 13. tit. 3. s. 16, 17): but shortly after the
nais, afterwards called Eudocia, wife of the em- appointment of Leontius, a second professorship of
peror Theodosius the younger. [EUDOCIA, No. 1.] law was added (Cod. Just. 11. tit. 18. s. un. ~ 1.)
22. Of PHRYGIA. [No. 1.] Of this Leontius we know no more, unless he be
23. PILATUS, or PYLATUS, a Greek of Thes- the same person who ten years afterwards is named
salonica, and a disciple of Barlaam. Boccacio met in several constitutions praefect of Constantinople.
him at Venice and persuaded him to give up his (Cod. Theod. 14. tit. 16. s. 3; ib. 6. tit. 28. s. 8;
intention of visiting Rome, and to go to Florence, ib. 16. tit. 5. s. ult.); this being a dignity' to
wvhere, through Boccacio's interest, he obtained the which we know that Themistius the sophist, and
appointment of public teacher, with a salary. He other professors of arts, sometimes aspired. (Jac.
was for some time (apparently for three years) the Gothofred ad Cod. Theod. 14. tit. 9. s. 3, and vol.
guest of Boccacio, to whom he gave private lessons ii. p. 114, ed. Ritter; Heineccius, Hist. Jur. Rom.
in Homer. Boccacio has -given a curious descrip- ~ 380. n.; Zimmern, R. R. G. vol. i. ~ 69.)
tion of the person and manners of Leontius; he 2. A jurist, was the father of a jurist named
ascribes to him a thorough acquaintance with Patricius, and succeeded another Patricius. All the
Greek literature, and an inexhaustible fund of three were probably professors of law at Berytus.
information on Grecian history, mythology, and (Const. Ae'8KEcv, ~ 9). From Cod. 1. tit. 17. s.
arts. He does not appear to have written any- 9, it appears that he preceded those distinguished
thing; but Boccacio, in his rlep1 yeveaAoyiary ancestors of Anatolius, who ".optimam sui memoDeorum, has repeatedly cited the remarks which riam in legibus reliquerunt," by which expression
he had heard Leontils make. His wandering dis- Justinian probably means to refer to useful composition led him to leave Florence; and his sub- mentarles on the Gregorian, Hermogenian, and
sequent history appears to be unknown. (Boccacio, Theodosian Codes. In the passage cited from the
De Genealog. Deor. xv. 6, 7.) Code he is mentioned with the titles "virum glo24. POETA. [No. 27.] riosissimum praefectorium consularem."
25. PRESBYTER. [Nos. 5 and 26.] 3. A jurist, perhaps of the same family with
26. Of ST. SABA. Surius has given (De Pro- No. 2, but of subsequent date. He was the son of
batis Sanctorunm Vitis, a. d. 22 Nov.), professedly the jurist Eudoxius, and the father of Anatolius,
from Symeon Metaphrastes, an interpolated Latin professor of law at Berytus, and one of the comversion of a life of St. Gregory of Agrigentum, by pilers of the Digest. This Leontius was one of
Leontius, presbyter and abbot of St. Saba. The that distinguished race to whom the expression of
Greek original, which is extant in MS., bears the Justinian, explained in the preceding article, aptitle Aeovrlov r peaCvw'pov ical riyouiovyou'Hls plies (Const. Tanta,~: 9); and from Const. As'wpovvjs ToO a dyov a'da T'rs'PCwpaCv V iro'Aec s Es KE, ~ 9, it may be4i6nfeirred: that; like his father
3Lov Kal ~a0/lar'a TroO de[ov Ia'rpos 0i1dVs rpsryo- and his son, he was priofessor of law at Berytus.
p'ov T'oi'AKpaTavri'ov, Leontii Presbyteri et Ab- 4. A praefectus praetorio:under the emperor
batis Coenobii S. Sbae (urbis Romae, sc. Novae s. Anastasius, the predecessor of Justinian. (Lydus,
CPoleos) Liber de Vita et Miraculis S. Patris de Magist. iii. 17.) An edict of his appearsin the
aostri Gregorii Agrigentini. If the expression collection of Edicta Prcaefectorun. Praetorio, pub" Urbis Romae" is correctly referred to Leontius, lished by C. E. Zachariae. (Anecdota, p. 273, fol.
it furnishes an argument for identifying him with Lips. 1843.)
Leontius of Byzantium [No. 5], who, in that case, 5. Is the second person named in the commission
must have embraced a monastic life in the monas- of ten, who were appointed to compile the first
tery of St. Saba, near Jerusalem. (Surius, I. c.; Constitutionum Codex of Justinian. In Const.
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 322; Cave, Hist. Summa Reipublicae, ~ 2, he appears with the titles
Litt. vol. ii. Dissert. 1; p. 12.) "vir eminentissimus, magister militum, consularis
27. SCHOLASTICUS, a Greek of Constantinople, atque patricius." He was not subsequently emauthor of various epigrams contained in the Antho- ployed in the emperor's legal compilations.
logia Graeca, among which is one Els eKcdva ra- 6. A patronus causarum in the tribunal of the
~poAtlou t7raipXouv v BuavYv'lp (vol. ii. p. 634, praefectus praetorio at Constantinople. He was
ed. Jacobs), in honour of Gabriel, who was prae- one of the 16 commissioners appointed to compile
fectus urbi under the emperor Justinian I. (Fabric. the Digest, under the presidency of Tribonian.
Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 480, vol. vii. p. 309, note (Const. Tanta, ~ 9, Const. A scwKiv ~ 9.) Some
dd. and p. 327.) of the different jurists named Leontius are con28. SOPHISTA. [See No. 21.] There was a founded by Pancirolus, de Clar. Interp. Jur.
Leontius, a friend of Libanius, to whom many of p.63. [J. T. G.]
his letters are addressed. See the Index in Wolf's LEO'NTIUS, a physician, saint, and martyr,
edition of the Epistolae of Libanius. who was probably of Arabian origin, but born at
There were various other Leontii, but none of Vicentia in Venetia, in the third century after
them of sufficient importance to claim notice. A list Christ. He afterwards removed to Aquileia in
of them may be seen in Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. Venetia, where, in company with St. Carpophorus,
viii. p. 323, &c.; and vol. xi. p. 567. [J. C. M.] who was either his brother or intimate friend, he
LEO'NTIUS, jurists. 1. In a constitution of distinguished himself by his zeal in favour of
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