Leontius
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Leontius the son of Aglaion
in the texts
Letters
A sophist and correspondent chided for not writing, to whom Basil sends his work against Eunomius.
if to all of these in turn you had entrusted letters, there would have been nothing to keep you from supposing that we were with you and, as it were, present and together enjoyed your company—so continuous was the throng of those reaching us.
For us, indeed, this constant press of business in which we now are might perhaps bring some excuse for our lack of letters;
I have sent also the work against Eunomius;
Republic
A man in an anecdote recounted by Socrates who experiences a conflict between his desire to look at corpses and his revulsion at the desire, illustrating the spirited part of the soul opposing appetite.
But, I said, I once heard a story which I believe, that Leontius the son of Aglaion, on his way up from the Peiraeus under the outer side of the northern wall, becoming aware of dead bodies that lay at the place of public execution at the same time felt a desire to see them and a repugnance and aversion, and that for a time he resisted and veiled his head, but overpowered in despite of all by his …