Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Leontius, a scholasticus of Byzantium
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Leontius (62), a scholasticus of
Byzantium, and afterwards a monk in Palestine,
who wrote c. 610 a Gk. treatise de
Sectis (Patr. Gk. lxxxvi. 1193; Cave,
i. 543; Ceillier, xi. 666). Cf. Fessler Jungmann,
Inst. Patr. ii. 2, p. 95; but esp. F. Loofs,
Leontius von Byzanz and die
Gleichnamigen Schrifts teller der Griechischen
Kirche (Leipz. 1887); also Herzog's
Encycl. 3rd ed. s.v. "Leonz.
von Byzanz."
[T.W.D.]