in History, having dethroned Leontius, cut off his nose and ears, and shut him up in a monastery, was proclaimed by the soldiers emperor of the East, A.D. 698. Leontius himself was also an usurper. He had dethroned Justinian II, who, afterwards, with the assistance of the Bulgarians, surpried and took Constantinople and made Abhimarus prisoner. Justinian, now settled on the throne, and having both Abhimarus and Leontius in his power, loaded them with chains, ordered them to lie down on the ground, and with a barbarous pleasure, held a foot on the neck of each for the space of an hour in presence of the people, who with shouts and exclamations sang, Super afflatus.