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LENTI'NI,- a town of Sicily, in the valley of Noto, 
fituated on a river of the fame name, about five miles 
from the fea ; very confiderable before it was almoft de- 
ftroyed by an earthquake in 1693. This city, anciently 
called Leontini, was built by the Chalcidians, under the 
conduft of Theocles the Athenian, in the fir ft year of 
13th Olympiad, as Thucydides informs us; in whofe 
time it was defended by two ftrong citadels, the one 
Called the citadel of Phocea, the other the citadel of Bri- 
cinnia. At a fmall diftance from the city was a lake 
abounding in fifh, and about twenty miles in compafs. 
The vapours arifing from the marfhes, made by the over¬ 
flowing of the lake, greatly infeCted the air, which was 
there deemed very unwholefome; but, to make amends 
for this, the fields were fo fruitful, that, according to 
Pliny, they yielded an hundred fold ; whence the city of 
Leontini was called by Tully the Grand Magazine of Si¬ 
cily. The wines it produced w'ere thought the molt de¬ 
licious of the whole ifland 5 but the inhabitants abufed 
the benefit by their intemperance, which gave rife to the 
proverb, “ The people of Leontini are always at their 
cups.” Dionyfius the Tyrant, having made himfelf maf- 
ter of this city, removed the inhabitants to Syracufe. 
Thirteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Catania, ten north-weft 
of Augufta, and nineteen north-north-weft of Syracufe. 
Lat. 37. 18. N. Ion. 15. o. E. 
LEN'TISK.yi \lentifcus, Lat. lentifque, Fr.] Lenlijk-wood 
is of a pale brown, almoft whitifti, refinous, fragrant, and 
acrid : it is the tree which produces mallic, efteemed af- 
tringent and balfamic. Hill. — Lenti/k is a beautiful ever¬ 
green, the maftic or gum of which is of ufe for the teeth 
or gums. Mortimer's Hufbandry. —See Pistachia. 
LEN'TISK (African and Peruvian). See Schinus. 
LENTISCO'SA, a town of Naples, in Principalo Ci- 
tra : nine miles fouth-weft of Policaftro. 
LEN'TITUDE, f. [from lentus, Lat.] Sluggifltnefs ; 
flownefs. 
LENT'NER,yi A kind of hawk.—I fhould enlarge my 
difcourfe to the obfervation of the haggard, and the two 
forts of lentners. Waltons Angler. 
LEN'TO, adv. [Italian.] A mufical term for flow, or 
a movement between largo and grave. 
LEN'TO, a town of the ifland of Corfica : eleven miles 
fouth of Oletta. 
LEN'TON, a village fo called from its fituation by the 
river Len, two miles fouth-weft of Nottingham, was before 
the ccnqueft a hamlet of Arnal. Fair on Wednefday after 
Whitfun-week, and fix days following ; and a liorfe fair 
on the 18th of November. 
LEN'TOR,yi {lentor, Lat. lenteur, Fr.] Tenacity; vif- 
cofity.—Some bodies have a kind of lentor, and more de- 
pectible nature than others. Bacon. —Slowtiefs ; delay; 
fluggifh coldnefs.—The lentor of eruptions, not inflamma¬ 
tory, points to an acid caufe. Arbuthnot on Diet. —[In phy- 
fic.] That fizy, vifcid, coagulated, part of the blood, 
which, in malignant fevers, obllruCts the capillary vefiels. 
Quincy. 
LEN'TOUS, adj. [ lentus , Lat.] Vifcous ; tenacious; 
capable to be drawn out.—In this fpawn of a lentous and 
tranfparent body, are to be difeerned many fpecks which 
became black, a fubftance more compacted and terreftri- 
ous than the other; for it rifeth notin diftillation. Brown. 
LEN'TULUS, a celebrated family at Rome, which pro¬ 
duced many great men in the commonwealth. The moft 
noted were— L. Cornelius Lentulus, a conful, A.U.C. 
428. who difperfed the robbers who infefted Umbria.— 
Cornelius Lentulus, lurnamed Sura. He joined in 
Catiline’s confpiracy, and aflifted in corrupting the Allo- 
broges : he was convidted in full fenate by Cicero, and put 
in prifon, and afterwards executed.— Cornelius Lentu¬ 
lus, furnamed Gatulicus, was made conful A. D. 26. and was, 
fome time after, puhto death by Tiberius, who was jealous 
of his great popularity. He wrote a hiftory, mentioned 
by Suetonius; and attempted poetry.—P. Lentulus, a 
friend of Brutus, mentioned by Cicero as a great and 
LEO 
confummate ftatefman. The confullhip was in the family 
of the Lentuli in the years of Rome 428, 477, 515, 516, 
55U 553. 594> 59 6 > &c. . 
LENTZ, a town of Prufiia, in the territory of Erme- 
land : eight miles north-eaft of Elbing. 
LENTZ'BURG, an extenfive bailiwick of Swiflerland, 
in the canton of Berne ; formerly a rich and powerful 
country, which came to the houfe of Habftmrg in 1264, 
and was furrendered by Frederic duke of Auftria to the 
canton of Berne in 1418. 
LENTZ'BURG, a town of Swiflerland, in the canton 
of Berne, and capital of a bailiwick, and one of the four 
municipal towns of the Argau ; it has a confiderable trade, 
with manufactures of flowered linens and cottons, tobac¬ 
co, See. It is fixteen miles weft of Zurich, and thirty-five 
north-eaft of Berne. 
LEN'TZEN, a town of Brandenburg, in the Mark of 
Pregnitz, near the Elbe: fourteen miles welt of Perleburg, 
and feventy-four north-weft of Berlin. Lat. 53. 9. N. 
Ion. 11. 36. E. 
LEN'TZENDORF, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Culmbach : feven miles north of Bayreuth. 
L’ENVOY', f [French.] An old title for a few de= 
tached verfes at the conclufion of a poem : 
Is not I'envoy a falve ? 
No, page, it is an epilogue, or difcourfe to make plain 
Some obfeure precedence, that hath tofore been fain. 
Shakef. Love's Lab. lojl,. 
LEN'ZA, a fmall ifland in the Adriatic. Lat. 44. 5. N. 
Ion. 15. 31. E. 
LE'O, the Lion, a confiderable conftellation of the 
northern hemifphere, being one of the forty-eight old 
conftellations, and the fifth fign of the zodiac. It is 
marked thus as a rude Iketch of the animal. The 
Greeks fabled that this was the Nemsean lion, which had 
dropped from the moon, but, being flain by Hercules, was 
raifed to the heavens by Jupiter, in commemoration of 
the dreadful conflict, and in honour of that hero. But 
the hieroglyphical meaning of this fign, fo depicted by 
the Egyptians long before the invention of the fables of 
Hercules, was probably no more than to fignify, by the 
fury of the lion, the violent heats occafioned by the fun 
when he entered that part of the ecliptic. The liars in 
the conftellation Leo, in Ptolemy’s Catalogue are 27, be- 
fides 8 unformed ones, now counted in later times in the 
conftellation Coma Berenices; in Tycho’s, 30; in that of 
Hevelius, 49 ; and in Flamfteed’s, 95. One of them, of the 
firft magnitude, in the breaft of the Lion, is called Re- 
gulus, and Cor Leonis, or Lion’s Heart. 
Leo Minor, the Little Lion, a conftellation of the nor¬ 
thern hemifphere, and one of the new ones that were 
formed out of what were left by the ancients under the 
name of Jlella informes, or unformed ftars, and added to 
the 48 old ones. It contains 53 ftars in Flamfteed’s Ca¬ 
talogue. 
LE'O, a man’s name. 
LE'O, a native of Byzantium, who fiourilhed 350 years 
before the Chriftian era. His philofophical and political 
talents endeared him to his countrymen; and he was al¬ 
ways lent upon every important occafion as ambaflador to 
Athens, or to the court of Philip king of Macedonia. 
This monarch, well acquainted with the abilities of Leo, 
was fenfible that his views and claims to Byzantium 
would never fucceed while it was protected by the vigi¬ 
lance of fuch a patriotic citizen. To remove him he had 
recourfe to artifice and perfidy. A letter was forged, in 
which Leo made folemn promifes of betraying his coun¬ 
try to the king of Macedonia for money. This was no 
fooner known, than the people ran enraged to the houfe 
of Leo ; and the philofopher, to avoid their fury, and with¬ 
out attempting his juftification, ftrangled himfelf. He 
had written fome treatifes upon phyfic and hiftory, which 
are loft. Plutarch. 
LEO I. (Pope), furnamed the Great, and a faint in the 
Roman 
