or LEONTIUM, in Ancient Geography, 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 Lacustrini anciently so called; the seat of the Lacustrins, according to the commentators on the poets. The name Leontini is from Leo, the impression

Pression on their coin being a lion. Now called Leontini, a town situated in the Val di Noto, in the southeast of Sicily.