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LEO V ., surnamed THE ARMENIAN, See also:emperor of the See also:East, 813-820, was a distinguished See also:general of Nicephorus I. and See also:Michael I. After rendering See also:good service on behalf of the latter in a See also:war with the See also:Arabs (812), he was summoned in 813 to co-operate in a See also:campaign against the Bulgarians. Taking See also:advantage of the disaffection prevalent among the troops, he See also:left Michael in the See also:lurch at the See also:battle of See also:Adrianople and subsequently led a successful revolution against him. Leo justified his usurpation by repeatedly defeating the Bulgarians who had been contemplating the See also:siege of See also:Constantinople (814-817). By his vigorous See also:measures of repression against the See also:Paulicians and See also:image-worshippers he roused considerable opposition, and after a See also:conspiracy under his friend Michael See also:Psellus had been foiled by the imprisonment of its See also:leader, he was assassinated in the See also:palace See also:chapel on See also:Christmas See also:Eve, 820. See E. See also:Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the See also:Roman See also:Empire (ed. See also:Bury, 1896), v. 193-195. M. O. B.

C.) LEo VI., surnamed THE See also:

WISE and THE PHILOSOPHER, See also:Byzantine emperor, 886–911. He was a weak minded ruler, chiefly occupied with unimportant See also:wars with barbarians and struggles with churchmen. The See also:chief event of his reign was the See also:capture of Thessalonica (904) by See also:Mahommedan pirates (described in The Capture of Thessalonica by See also:John Cameniata) under the renegade Leo of Tripolis. In See also:Sicily and See also:Lower See also:Italy the imperial arms were unsuccessful, and the Bulgarian Symeon, who assumed the See also:title of " Czar of the Bulgarians and autocrat of the Romaei" secured the See also:independence of his See also:church by the See also:establishment of a patriarchate. Leo's somewhat absurd surname may be explained by the facts that he " was less ignorant than the greater See also:part of his contemporaries in church and See also:state, that his See also:education had been directed by the learned See also:Photius, and that several books of profane and ecclesiastical See also:science were composed by the See also:pen, or in the name, of the imperial philosopher " (Gibbon). His See also:works include seventeen Oracula, in See also:iambic See also:verse, on the destinies of future emperors and patriarchs of Constantinople; See also:thirty-three Orations, chiefly on theological subjects (such as church festivals); See also:Basilica, the completion of the See also:digest of the See also:laws of Justinian, begun by See also:Basil I., the See also:father of Leo; some epigrams in the See also:Greek See also:Anthology; an iambic lament on the See also:melancholy See also:condition of the empire; and some palindromic verses, curiously called KapKivol (crabs). The See also:treatise on military See also:tactics, attributed to hiin, is probably by Leo III., the Isaurian. See also:Complete edition in See also:Migne, Patrologia Graeca, cvii.; for the, literature of individual works see C. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897). (J. H.

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