Letter CXLV.

To Leo Augustus⁵⁷³⁵⁷³    Marcian died in 457, and was succeeded by Leo of Thrace..

(Asking him to help the church of Alexandria in appointing a good bishop in place of the murdered Proterius⁵⁷⁴⁵⁷⁴    On 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..)