Ionic colonnade around the exterior, and an inner courtyard with a Doric peristyle, and
includes an extensive series of guest-rooms. An homonymous sculptor may be our architect
(V 7.pr.14).
A. Mallwitz, Olympia und seine Bauten (1972) 246–254; Svenson-Ebers (1996) 380–387; KLA 2.12–13,
W. Müller.
Margaret M. Miles
Leontinos (Agric.) (200? – 330 CE)
Listed by Pho ̄tios, Bibl. 163, among the sources of V A. The MSS give
Leo ̄n, but Oder plausibly emends to Leontinos, more typical of the period.
Oder (1890) 92–93.
PTK
Leontios (600 – 650 CE)
Wrote two short astronomical tracts. In his commentary on A’ On the Construction of
the Sphere, addressed against T (M.), Leontios described Aratos’ division of the
stars into three parts, the division of the celestial sphere into six parts, the placement of the
constellations, including the zodiac, to those six circles inscribed on the heavenly sphere,
and the relationship between the celestial sphere and the five zones of the Earth. The
treatise also details practical applications (navigation). His On the Circle of the Zodiac describes
the zodiac, its connections to the tropics, the path of the Sun and how it affects the
seasons, and the necessity of the seasons. The tract cites P and recalls Neo-
Pythagoreanism, comparing the zodiac circle to the Demiurge – lacking a beginning
and end – and explaining the 12 parts of the zodiac in terms of musical theory.
E. Maass, Commentariorum in Aratum reliquiae (1958) , 561–570.
GLIM
Leophane ̄s (470 – 430 BCE)
Named by A 5.7.5 (Diels 1879: 420) between A and L, provid-
ing an approximate date. T quotes him as commending black soil: it absorbs
both heat and water and therefore is able to withstand both rain and drought (CP 2.4.12).
A refers to Leophane ̄s’ view that males who copulate with the right testicle bound
up will produce male progeny, while those with the left testicle bound will produce female
offspring (GA 4.1 [765a23–25]). Wellmann (Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1921: 22) thinks that
Leophane ̄s’ regulation, which would have generated some popular superstition, might have
recommended his work to B.
RE 12.2 (1925) 2057, W. Kroll.
Maria Marsilio
Lepidianus (30 BCE – 360 CE)
O, Ecl. Med. 75.21 (CMG 6.2.2, p. 246), records a potion for gout and arthritis
composed of khamaidrus (germander), aristolokhia (birthwort), gentian (cf. G), and
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