context: For the first time, monks are mentioned in a letter from Dioscoros to Pope Gormizdu. It is mentioned by name only Leonty, a relative of the then influential commander Vitalian [36]. More detailed information is contained in a letter to the nephew of Emperor Justin, future Emperor Justinian, also to Gormizd: "... The names of these monks: Achilles, John, Leontius and Mauritius." In a scholia, “Maxentius” was added to the name “Mauritius” to this place [37].
question: What was the name of the first Scythian monk who lived on the territory of the Byzantine Empire at the beginning of the VI century?
answers.text: Leonty