LESTRYGONES, a fabulous race of giants, whose name is often found in the Greek myths. They are first mentioned in the Odyssey, where they are described as a pastoral people, governed by a king called Lamus. Homer assigns them no site, but tradition placed them in the island of Sicily. Their exact locality in that island varied with the fancy of the writer. The current story is that they dwelt near Leontini, and that from this circumstance the rich plains adjoining that city came to be called the Campi Lestrygonii. The version most popular at Rome was that they lived on the Latian coast around Formiae, which was represented as their capital.