Leo

Works

He wrote the following works, now lost: 1. Καρικῶν Βιβλία δ́, De rebus Cariae Libri quatuor 2. Λυκιακὰ ἐν Βιβλίοις βʼ, De rebus Lyciae, Libri duo 3. Ὁ ἱερὸς πόλεμος Φωκέων καὶ Βοιωτῶν, Bellum Sacrum inter Phocenses et Boeotos 4. Τέχνη, Ars (sc. Rhetorica 5. Περὶ στάσεων, De Statibus, or De Seditionibus.

In Villoison's edition of Eudocia the last two works are mentioned as one, the title of which is Τέχνη περὶ στάσεων, Ars de Statibus.

If the above list of the works of Leo be correct, we may conjecture that he lived not far from the time of Alexander the Great, that is, after the close of the Sacred War, of which he wrote the history and before the local history of Caria and Lycia had lost its interest by the absorption of those provinces in the Syrian and Pergamenian kingdoms, and subsequently in the Roman empire. It is to be observed, however, that the authority of the Sacred War and of the work De Statibus is doubtful, as Suidas and Eudocia enumerate works under those titles among those of Leo of Byzantium. [No. 7.] Vossius supposes that either Leo of Alabanda or Leo of Byzantium is the writer referred to by Hyginus (Astron. Poetic. 100.20), as having written a work on the history of Egypt. [See No. 3.]

Further Information

Suidas, s. v. Δέων Ἀλαβανδεύς; Eudocia, Violetum, s. v. Δέων Ἁλαβανδεύς; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 132, vol. vii. p. 713; Voss. de Hist. Graec. Lib. iii. p. 179.