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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Leo'ntius MECHANICUS (search)
whether this Theodorus was the person of that name to whom Proclus inscribed his treatise De Providentia et Fato; or a later Theodorus, an engineer, who defendedd Dara in the war between the emperor Justinian I. and the Persian king, Chosroes I. (Procop. de Bell. Persico, 2.13): more probably it was the latter. Leontius also states that he had constructed a sphere or celestial globe, after the description of Aratus, for an Elpidius, who was perhaps the Elpidius sent by the emperor Maurice (A. D. 583) on an embassy to the Chagan ofthe Avars. (Theophan. Chronog. p.214, ed. Paris, p. 170, ed. Venice, vol. i. p. 390, ed. Bonn.) It may then be considered that Leontius lived in the reign of Justinian and his successors, in the latter part of the sixth century. Works *Peri/ paraskeuh=s *)Aratei/as sfai/ras, De Constructione Sphaerae Arati Leontius wrote a dissertation, which has come down in an imperfect form, *Peri/ paraskeuh=s *)Aratei/as sfai/ras, De Constructione Sphaerae Arati. T
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Menander (search)
r 3. Protector (*Proti/ktwr, i. e. body-guard), the son of Euphratas of Byzantium, was a rhetorician and historical writer under the emperor Mauricius, whose reign began in A. D. 581. Works History Menander has left us an account of his own literary pursuits, in a fragment preserved by Suidas (s. v). He continued the history of the Eastern Empire from the point where Agathias broke off, namely, the twenty-third year of Justinian, A. D. 558, down nearly to the death of Tiberius II. in A. D. 583. Edition A considerable fragment of this history is preserved in the Eclogae of embassies, published by Hoeschel, Aug. Vindol. 1603. Assessment Menander is often quoted by Suidas, and is mentioned by Theophylact of Simocatta (Hist. Mauric. 1.3), who continued his history, and by Constantinus Porphyrogenitus (Them. 1.2). According to Niebuhr (Dexipp. p. 281), he may be trusted as an historian, but his style is a close imitation of Agathias, varied by occasional ridiculous attempts at