1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ENGYON, an ancient town of the interior of Sicily, a Cretan colony, according to legend, and famous for an ancient temple of the Matres which aroused the greed of Verres. Its site is uncertain; some topographers have identified it with Gangi, a town 20 m. S.S.E. of Cefalu, but only on the ground of the similarity of the two names. See C. Hiilsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, v. 2568.
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