Leontium

and Leontīni , a town of Sicily, about five miles distant from the sea-shore. It was built by a colony from Chalcis in Eubæa, and was, according to some accounts, once the habitation of the Lætrygones, for which reason the neighbouring fields are often called Læstrygonii campi . The country was extremely fruitful, whence Cicero calls it the grand magazine of Sicily. The wine which it produced was the best of the island. The people of Leontium implored the a istance of the A then i ans against the Syracusans, B.C. 427. Thucydides , bk. 6 .— Polybius , bk. 7 .— Ovid , Fasti , bk. 4 , li. 467 .— Silius Italic us , bk. 14 , li. 126 .— Cicero , Against Verres , bk. 5 .