Leeos

The leeos were a peony tribe that in the fourth century BC. C. lived in the vicinity of that of the Agrians, another Peony tribe, along the high course of the river Strimmon, on the western border of Thrace.

They were not incorporated into the Odrisian or Peonian kingdom, remaining as an independent tribe outside the borders of both kingdoms. According to Thucydides, the Leos, together with the Agrians, the gods, and other tribes, joined the Odysseus king Sitalces in his failed campaign against Perdiccas II of Macedonia.

The coins minted by the leeos have been considered of rudimentary manufacture and imitations of those issued by other neighboring peonies tribes. A typical coin bears the inscription LAIAI (leeos) on the obverse, and Pegasus in a double linear square on the reverse. It is unclear whether the Leos were or were not conquered by Philip II or Alexander the Great, although their neighbors are documented by historians such as Arrian as clients of the king.

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