Engyon (Ancient Greek: Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἒγγυον; Latin: Engium; Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ἐγγύον 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. 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: Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Λεπτίνης) 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. Others identify it with Troina.