(Pliny): Salentina, (Ptolemy); now Capo di San Maria di Leuca; a promontory in the kingdom of Naples, to the south-east of Otranto, where formerly was a town, now lying in ruins, on the Ionian sea, over against the Montes Acroceramii of Epirus.

ACRE, in the ancient geography, a town of Sicily, whose inhabitants were called Acrenes. It stood to the south of Syracuse at the distance of 24 miles, near the place now called the monastery of Santa Maria d'Arcia, on an eminence, as appears from Silius Italicus. The Syracusans were the founders of it, according to Thucydides, 70 years after the building of Syracuse, or 665 before Christ. Hence the epithet Acrene.