Zeno

(ze'no,) aGreek philosopher, founder of the Stoic school, was B. at Citium, in Cyprus, and flourished in the 3d cent. B. c.-A philosopher of Elea, flourished in the 5th cent. B. c. See ELEATIC. Ze'no, called THE I SAURIAN, usurped the Byzantine throne upon the demise ofhis father-in-law, Leo I., 474 A. D., and, after a tyrannical and disturbed reign, D. in491. [s. 977]