Engyon (Ancient Greek: ; ; in some Byzantine texts of Ptolemy and Plutarch)Ptolemy, Klaudiou Ptolemaiou Geographike hyphegesis, Volume 1, trans. Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller (Alfred Firmin Didot, Paris: 1883), p. 405 is an ancient town of the interior of Magna Graecia in Sicily, a Cretan colony, according to Diodorus Siculus and famous for an ancient temple of the Magna Mater (Mother Rhea)Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1889, Note 173, available at:, accessed 24 June 2015. imported from Crete, which aroused the greed of Verres. It took its name from a spring that arose in the land chosen by the colonists, as explained in the following excerpt from Diodorus:
Timoleon attacked the city, while the tyrant Leptines (Ancient Greek: ) was the ruler. After he defeated the Leptines, he restored its autonomy.Diodorus Siculus, Library, §16.72.1
Its site is uncertain; some topographers have identified it with Gangi, a town 30 km SSE of Cefalù, but only on the ground of the similarity of the two names. Others identify it with Troina.
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