Leontini (modern Lentini), a Sicilian inland plain north-west of Syracuse, the most famous grain-belt of the island. Birthplace of the sophist Gorgias. The Leontine plain figures repeatedly in the tithe narratives of Verres (e.g. Verr. 2.3.117; 2.5.181) and in the politics of the late Republic as a notorious gift of public land (Phil. 2.43 to Sex. Clodius).