LEONTINI, or LEONTIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Sicily on the south side of the river Teras, 20 miles north-west of Syracuse. The territory, called Campi Leontini, was extremely fertile (Cicero): these were the Campi Læstrigoni anciently so called; the feat of the Læstrigons, according to the commentators on the poets. The name Leontini is from Leo, the im-
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Leontini II Leprosy. pressas on their coin being a lion. Now call Lentini, a town situated in the Val di Noto, in the south-east of Sicily.