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Leontini

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Leontini

Ancient city in Sicily founded by Chalcidians from Naxos in 729 BC. It never attained real political importance owing to the proximity of Syracuse.

It was the birthplace of the sophist Gorgias.



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An oligarchy is also changed into a tyranny; such was the rise of most of the ancient tyrannies in Sicily; at Leontini, into the tyranny of Panaetius; at Gela, into that of Cleander; at Rhegium into that of Anaxilaus; and the like in many other cities.
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