Lilingis was the half-brother of the influential Isaurian general Illus. In 484, he was given command of an army by Zeno and charged with putting down a revolt against the emperor by Illus. He was ostensibly successful in this, becoming governor of Isauria shortly thereafter.[1]
Upon the death of Zeno in 491, Lilingis and his fellow Isaurians revolted against the new emperor Anastasius, inciting the Isaurian War.[2] He was killed when the Isaurian rebels were routed by the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Cotyaeum in 492.[3]
