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Rh LEO. 2. Nau^axtKo. Some passages extracted from the Tactica, and given by Fabricius, led to the supposition that thay are quotations from, and con- sequently fragments of, a separate work of Leo on naval warfare. 3. XVII. OracuJa^ written in Greek iambic verses, and accompanied by marginal drawings, on the fate of the future emperors and patriarchs of Constantinople, showing the superstition of Leo if he believed in his divination, and that of the people if they had faith in the absurd predictions. The 17th Oracle, on the Restoration of Constantinople, was published in Greek and Latin by Joan. Leun- clavius ad Calcem Const. Manassae, Basel, 1573, 8vo. Janus Rutgersius edited the other sixteen, with a Latin version by Georg. Dousa, Leyden, 1G18, 4to, Other editions: " Espositione delli Oracoli di Leone imperatore," by T. Patricius, Brixen, 1596; by Petrus Lambecius, with a re- vised text from an Amsterdam Codex, with notes and a new translation, Paris, 1655, fol. ad Calcem Codini. A German translation by John and Theo- dore de Bry appeared in " Vita, &c. Muhammedis," quoted above ; and a Latin one by the same trans- lators, Frankfort, 1597, 4to, ; the same year in which the German version was published. It is »doubtful whether Leo is or not the author of the Oracles. Fabricius gives a learned disquisition on the subject. 4. Orationes XXXIIL, mostly on theological subjects. One of them appeared in a Latin version by F. Metius, in Baronius, Annales ; nine others by Gretserus, in the 14th vol. of his Opera., Ingol- stadt, 1600, 4to. ; three others, together with seven of those published by Gretserus, by Combefis, in the first vol. of his Biblioth. PP. Graeco-Lat. Auctar. Nov., Paris, 1648, fol. ; Oratio de iSto. Nicolo, Greek and Latin, by Petrus Possinus, Tou- louse, 1654, 4to. ; Oratio de Sto. C^rysostomo, restored from the life of that father by Georgius Alexandrinus, in the 8th vol. of the Savilian ed. of St. Chrysostomus, Antwerp, 1614, fol. ; some others in Combefis, Biblioth. Co7icionatoria, in the Biblioth. Patrum Lugdun., and dispersed in other works ; Leonis Imp. Hoinilia nunc primum vulgata Graece et Latine, ejusdemque qua Photiana est. Con- futation a Scipione Maffei, Padua, 1751, 8vo. 5. Epistola ad Omarum Saracenum de Fidei Christianae Veritate et Saracenorum Erroribus, in Latin, Lyon, 1509, by Champerius, who translated a Chaldaean version of the Greek original, which seems to be lost ; the same in the ditferent Biblioth. Patrum, and separately by Professor Schwarz, in the Program of the University of Leipzig, of the year 1786. 6. Cantieum Compunctionis ex Meditatione ex- tremi Judicii, Greek and Latin, by Jac. Pontanus, Ingolstadt, 1603, 4to. ; and in the various Bibli- oth. Patr. 7. Carmen iambicum de misero Graeciae Statu, with a Latin version by F. Lucidus, edited by Leo Allatius in his "De Consensu utriusque Ec- clesiae." 8. XXII. Versus Retrogradi (KapviKoi), pub- lished by Leo Allatius in Excerpt. Graec. Rhetor., Rome, 1641, 8vo. Different hymns of Leo are extant in MS. in various libraries. 9. 'H yc-^'ovma SiaTviraxTis irapoL rov /BaaiXeus AeoPTos Tov 'S,o(pov, ottws exouci rd^ecas ol ^pSvoi roiv 'EkkXtjctiuv, tUv viroKeiiJLevwv t^ narpiopxi? Kav(XTavrivoviv6fus Disposiiio facta per Impera- LEO. •41 torem Leonem Supienteni q/iein ordifiem habcaiit throni Ecclesiarum Patriarchae Constantinopolitano subjc'ctarum, Greek and Latin, by J. Leunclavius, in Jus Graeco-Romanum ; by Jac. Goar, ad calcem Codini, Paris, 1648, fol. 10. Eis TO. Movo/xepiov, In Spectaculum Unius Dei, an epigram of little value, with notes by Bro- daeus and Opsopaeus, in Epigram. Libri VII., ed. Wechel, Frankfort, 1600. Among other produc- tions ascribed to Leo, and of which the reader will find an account in the sources cited Lelow, we mention only two books on falconry, extant in MS. in a Munich MS., which seems to be different from a Turin MS. entitled 'OpveoaocpiariKdv, since •the first treats on falconry exclusively, and the latter on various birds, though on falcons more than others: the first may be an extract of the second, (Zonar. vol. ii. p. 174, &c. ; Cedren. p. 591, &c. ; Joel, p. 179 ; Manass. p. 108, ^c. ; Glycas, p. 296, &c. ; Genes, p. 61, &c. ; Codin. p. 63, &c. ; Fabric, Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 693, &c. ; Ilamberger. Nachrichten von Gelehrien M'dnnern ; Cave, Hist. Lit. ; Hankius, Script. Bijzant. ; Oudin, Cor/i^ 7mnt. de SS. Feci, vol. ii. p. 394, &c.) [W. P.] LEO, or LEON (Aewf), Greek writers. 1. AcADEMicus, called by Justin the historian and Suidas Leonides (Aeccj/iSyjy), was apparently a native of Heracleia in Pontus, and a disciple of Plato. He was one of the conspirators who, with their leader, Chion, in the reign of Ochus, king of Persia, B. c. 353, or, according to Orelli, B.C. 351, assassi- nated Clearchus, tyrant of Heracleia. [Chion, Clearchus.] The greater part of the conspirators were killed on the spot by the tyrant's guards ; others were afterwards taken and put to a cruel death ; but which fate befel Leo is not mentioned. Nicias of Nicaea (apud Athen.xi. p. 506, ed. Casau- bon), and Favorinus (Diog. Laert.iii. 37) ascribed to a certain Leo the Academic the dialogue Alcyoa ('AAttuajj/), which was, in the time of Athenaeus, by some ascribed to Plato ; and has in modern times been printed among the works of Lucian, by whom it was certainly not written ; and from the general character of whose writings the subject (the power of God displayed in his works) is altogether alien, Fabricius identifies the author of the Dialogue with the accomplice of Chion ; but we know not on what ground. (Memnon, apud Phot. Bibl. codi, 224, sub init, ; Justin, xvi. 5 ; Suidas, s. v. Kl- apxos ; Athen. I. c. ; Diog. Laert. I. c. ; Lucian, Opera, vol. i. p. 128, ed. Bipont ; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. iii. pp. 108, 173, 178.) 2. Of AcHRis {'Axpis), or Achridia (now Okhrida in Albania), Avas so called because he held the dignity of archbishop of the Greek church among the Bulgarians ; and the seat of the archbishopric was commonly fixed at Achris. He joined about A. D. 1053 with Michael Cerularius, patriarch of Constantinople, in writing a very bitter letter against the pope, which they sent to Joannes, archbishop of Trani in Apulia, to be distributed among the members of the Latin church, prelates, monks, and laity. A translation of this letter is given by Baronius. {Aimal. Eccles. ad Ann. 1053, xxii. &c.) The pope, Leo IX., replied in a long letter, which is given in the Concilia, vol. ix. col, 949,&c.,ed. Labbe ; vol. vL col. 927, ed. Hardouin ; vol. xix. col. 635, ed. Mansi ; and the following year both Cerularius and Leo of Achris were exm communicated by cardinal Humbert, the papal legate. (Baronius, ad Ann. 1054, xxv.) Leo 3b 3