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To Leo Augustus.

Letter CXLV.

To Leo Augustus 573 .

(Asking him to help the church of Alexandria in appointing a good bishop in place of the murdered Proterius 574 .)

Footnotes
  1. 99:573

    Marcian died in 457, and was succeeded by Leo of Thrace.

  2. 99:574

    On Marcian’s death there had been a rising, in which Proterius had been brutally murdered, and a monk named Timothy Ælurus set up in his stead.

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