Leo VI, the Wise (the Philosopher)

J. M. Neale calls Leo VI the Philosopher a royal poet who reigned from 886 to 917 and left behind the Idiomela, or detached stanzas, on the Resurrection, sung at Lauds; they are better, he says, than might have been expected from an imperial author. His heading gives 917 as the year of death, while John Brownlie's heading for the hymn given here says he died in 911.

This file contains the one poem the sources attribute to him, Brownlie's 1900 translation of a hymn headed 'By the Emperor Leo VI.', which begins 'Come ye people, come adore Him'.