Leontini
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Leontines · Leontines' city · the Leontines · the Leontini
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Sicilian city whose war with Syracuse prompts its allies to seek Athenian assistance.
So the allies of the Leontines sent to Athens, both on the ground of their former confederacy with them and because they were Ionians, and urged the Athenians to send them a fleet, for they were excluded by the Syracusans from the use both of land and sea.
the Syracusans having, with the exception of Camarina, all the Dorian cities in alliance with them—for indeed these had joined the Lacedaemonian confederacy at the commencement of the war, though they had not taken any part in it with them—while the Leontines had the Chalcidian cities, and Camarina.
When the aristocratical party were aware of it, they called in the Syracusans, and expelled the commons;
On the Embassy
A Sicilian city whose appeal for Athenian help occasioned the disastrous Sicilian expedition, cited by Aeschines as a historical warning.
But I urged that we should take warning from the Sicilian expedition, which was sent out to help the people of Leontini, at a time when the enemy were already in our own territory and Deceleia was fortified against us;
Antidosis
City associated with Gorgias' identity.
The man who in our recollection laid up the most was Gorgias of Leontini.
Apology
City of origin of the sophist Gorgias.
Although this also seems to me to be a fine thing, if one might be able to teach people, as Gorgias of Leontini and Prodicus of Ceos and Hippias of Elis are.
Theages
Home city of the sophist Gorgias.
And moreover, if Theages here does despise the instruction of our statesmen, and is looking for some other persons who profess to be able to educate young people, we have here Prodicus of Ceos, Gorgias of Leontini, Polus of Acragas, and many more, who are so wise that they go to our cities and persuade the noblest and wealthiest of our young men—who have the choice of learning from any citizen the …
Anabasis
Sicilian city attached to Gorgias' epithet.
Proxenus the Boeotian cherished from his earliest youth an eager desire to become a man capable of dealing with great affairs, and because of this desire he paid money to Gorgias of Leontini.