Leontius
5. Is the second person named in the commission of ten, who were appointed to compile the first Constitutionum Codex of Justinian. In Const. Summa Reipublicae, § 2, he appears with the titles "vir eminentissimus, magister militum, consularis atque patricius." He was not subsequently employed in the emperor's legal compilations.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.