Leon, emperor of the East, III. v. 7;
sends an expedition against the Vandals,
III. vi. 1 ff., xx. 2;
quarrels with Aspar, III. vi. 3;
appoints Anthemius emperor of the West,
III. vi. 5;
wins over the tyrant Marcellianus and
sends him against the
Vandals in Sardinia,
III. vi. 8;
dreaded by Gizeric, III. vi. 11;
his expedition destroyed by the Vandals,
III. vi. 17 ff.;
destroys Aspar and Ardaburius, III. vi.
27;
his death, III. vii. 2;
husband of Berine, III. vi. 2;
father of Ariadne, III. vii. 2
Leon the younger, son of Zenon and Ariadne, III. vii.
2;
becomes emperor while an infant, III.
vii. 2;
dies soon afterwards, III. vii. 3
Leontius, son of Zaunus, sent as commander to Libya,
IV. xix. 1;
fights valorously at the capture of Toumar,
IV. xx. 19;
brother of Rufinus, ibid.
Leptes, city in Libya, III. xvii. 8
Leptimagna, city in Tripolis;
threatened by an army of Leuathae, IV.
xxi. 2, 13, 15
Lesbos, passed by the fugitive Vandals, IV. xiv. 18
Leuathae, tribe of Moors;
present demands to Sergius, IV. xxi. 2;
their representatives received by Sergius
and killed, IV. xxi. 4-10;
come in arms against Leptimagna, IV. xxi.
12;
routed by the Romans, IV. xxi. 14;
march against the Romans a second time,
IV. xxi. 16;
scorn the overtures of Solomon, IV. xxi.
20-22;
capture Solomon, son of Bacchus, IV. xxii.
13;
release him, IV. xxii. 16;
besiege Laribus, IV. xxii. 18;
depart to their homes IV. xxii. 20;
join the Moors of Byzacium against the
Romans, IV. xxviii. 47
Libya, included in “Asia,” III. i. 5;
its aborigines, IV. x. 23;
the Phoenicians emigrate thither, IV.
x. 19;
Phoenician tongue used there, IV. x. 20;
subjugated by the Romans, IV. x. 28;
failure of the Visigothic king Attalus
to get a foothold there,
III. ii. 30, 32, 36;
lost by Valentinian, III. iii. 12;
occupied by the Vandals, III. iii. 26,
xxii. 4;
who remove the walls of the cities, III.
v. 8, xv. 9;
recovered for the Romans by Belisarius,
III. xvi. 9 ff.;
prospers under the rule of Solomon, IV.
xix. 3, xx. 33;
who restores the walls of the cities,
IV. xix. 3, xx. 29;
overrun by the Moors, IV. xxiii. 26-31,
xxviii. 49
Libyans, enslaved and impoverished by Gizeric, III.
v. 11-13, 15-17;
cannot trust the Vandals, III. xvi. 3;
their sufferings at the hands of the Vandals,
III. xx. 19;
oppressed by the Moors, IV. viii. 20,
xxiii. 27;
enjoy peace at last, IV. xxviii. 52
Liguria, the army of Majorinus halts there, III. vii. 4, 11
Lilybaeum, a promontory of Sicily;
presented to Amalafrida, III. viii. 13;
Belisarius attempts unsuccessfully to
take it, IV. v. 11;
he asserts his claim, IV. v. 12 ff.;
the claim denied by the Goths, IV. v.
19 ff.