This work is a critical edition of the works of sixth-century theologian, Leontius of Byzantium.

Brian E. Daley, SJ, is Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a historical theologian, who specializes in the study of the early Church, particularly the development of Christian doctrine from the fourth to the eighth centuries. His publications include Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord (St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2013) and Hope of the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic Eschatology (Baker, 2002). In 2014, he co-edited The Harp of Prophecy: Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms with Paul R. Kolbet (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014).

• INTRODUCTION


• I: The Author and his Times


• II: The Works


• A. The Six Treatises


• B. The Florilegia


• III: Leontius the Theologian


• IV: The Manuscripts


• V: The Scholia


• VI: Earlier Editions


• VII: This Edition


• VIII: Select Bibliography


• Key to the apparatus of Leontius's Florilegia


• Abbreviations


• TEXT AND TRANSLATION


• 1: Contra Nestorianos et Eutychianos (¿¿¿öa')


• Appendix I (Scholion)


• Appendix II (Scholion)


• 2: Epilyseis (= Solutiones Argumentorum Severi)


• 3: Epapor¿mata (= Triginta Capita contra Severum)


• 4: Contra Aphthartodocetas (¿¿¿öß')


• 5: Deprenhensio et Triumphus super Nestorianos (¿¿¿¿¿¿')


• 6: Adversus Fraudes Apollinaristarum


• 7: Fragmenta Incerta


• Appendix III (Excerpta Leontina)


• Appendix IV (Tabular comparison of extracts in Leontius s florilegia with those in other ancient and medieval florilegia)