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LEONTINI

Volume 9 · 80 words · 1797 Edition

or LEONTIUM (anc. geog.), a town of Sicily on the south side of the river Terias, 20 miles north-west of Syracuse. The territory, called Campi Leontini, was extremely fertile (Cicero): these were the Campi Laetrigonis, anciently so called; the feet of the Laetrigons, according to the commentators on the poets. The name Leontini is from Leo, the impression on their coin being a lion. Now called Lentini, a town situated in the Val di Noto, in the south-east of Sicily.