To Leo Augustus.

1 Letter CXLV.

2 To Leo Augustus⁵⁷³Marcian died in 457, and was succeeded by Leo of Thrace..

3 (Asking him to help the church of Alexandria in appointing a good bishop in place of the murdered Proterius⁵⁷⁴On Marcian’s death there had been a rising, in which Proterius had been brutally murdered, and a monk named Timothy Ælurus set up in his stead..)