אספר, Snh. 106ᵃ (וצים מיר כתים) אמר רב ליבון א׳ ed. [missing in Ms. M. and added on margin; Ar. ed. pr. a. ed. Koh. לכין א׳; Yalk. Num. 771 לא לגיון א׳] pr. n. m. (Λέων Ἴσαυρος, Leo Isaurus) Leo the Isaurian, Byzantine emperor, leader of the iconoclastic movement which caused a long-continued war between the East and the West of the empire. [The words above quoted are an interpolation of the eighth or ninth century, and refer to “the war between the lion and the lioness”—words immediately preceding our quotation. The interrupted context in Rashi a. l. shows that the commentary to our ws. is also a later addition and that in Rashi’s Talmud text there was no such interpolation. As to the impression on the Jews of the iconoclastic agitation, v. Sachs Beitr. I, p. 78. For Var. Lect. v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. and Koh. Ar. s. v.]