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Engyon (Ancient Greek: Шаблон:Lang; Шаблон:Lang-la; Шаблон:Lang-el in some Byzantine texts of Ptolemy and Plutarch)[1] 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)[2] imported from Crete, which aroused the greed of Verres.Шаблон:Sfn It took its name from a spring that arose in the land chosen by the colonists, as explained in the following excerpt from Diodorus:

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Timoleon attacked the city, while the tyrant Leptines (Ancient Greek: Шаблон:Lang) was the ruler. After he defeated the Leptines, he restored its autonomy.[3]

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.Шаблон:Sfn OthersШаблон:Who identify it with Troina.

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  1. Ptolemy, Klaudiou Ptolemaiou Geographike hyphegesis, Volume 1, trans. Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller (Alfred Firmin Didot, Paris: 1883), p. 405
  2. 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:[1], accessed 24 June 2015.
  3. Diodorus Siculus, Library, §16.72.1