Engyon

Engyon (Ἒ, Engium, Ἐ in some Byzantine texts of Ptolemy and Plutarch) 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) 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: ὐ ὴ ἀ᾽ ἱ ὰ ὴ ῆ ὰ ὴ ὴ ἐ ὰ ὴ ἀ, ῶ ὲ ῶ ὑὸ ῶ ὶ ὸ ῶ ἐῶ ὴ ὲ ἰ ὰ ἐ ἀ, ᾽ ἐ ῇ ᾳ ῖ, ἱ ὲ ἐῦ ᾤ ἣ ἀὸ ῦ ὐῶ ῴ ὠ, ἱ ὲ ὰ ῆ ὶ ὀὸ ἔ ἣ ἀὸ ῆ ἐ ῇ ῥ ῆ ὠ Ἔ. However, the Cretans of Sicily, after the death of Minos, fell into factious strife, since they had no ruler, and, since their ships had been burned by the Sicani serving under Cocalus, they gave up any hope they had of returning to their native land; and deciding to make their home in Sicily, a part of them established on that island a city to which they gave the name Minoa after their king, and others, after wandering about through the interior of the island, seized a place wh

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