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The Venerable Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum (ed. Charles Plummer) 1 1 Browse Search
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Fla'vius> Isaurus (search)
la'vius> Isaurus surnamed ISAURUS, or the Isaurian, emperor of Constantinople (A. D. 718-741), and one of the most remarkable of the emperors of the East, was a native of Isauria, and the son of a respectable farmer, who settled in Thrace, taking his son with him. Young Conon, which was Leo's original name, obtained the place of a spatharius in the army of the emperor Justinian II. Rhinotmetus, and soon rose to eminence through his military talents. Anastasius II., who reigned from A. D. 713-716, gave him the supreme command in Asia, which he was still holding when Theodosius III. deposed that emperor, and seized the crown in January, 716. Summoned to acknowledge Theodosius, the gallant general called him an usurper, and immediately took up arms against him, alleging that he would restore the deposed Anastasius to the throne, but really intending to make himself master of the empire. Artabazes, the commander of the Armenian legions, supported Leo, who had besides many friends in the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theodo'sius (search)
Theodo'sius III., was compelled, perhaps, against his will, to be proclaimed emperor of the East in A. D. 716, by the fleet, which also declared that Anastasius, his predecessor, was unfit to reign. Theodosius filled the unimportant office of a collector of the revenue when he was taken to Constantinople to be crowned Emperor of the East. In January 716, he was proclaimed emperor, and in the following year he prudently abdicated, and left the throne for Leo the Isaurian, who commanded the troops in the East. Theodosius spent the rest of his life in the tranquil retirement of a monastery. [G.L]