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Roman outpost established in conquered territory to secure it
colonies in antiquity
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colonial mentality
internalized attitude of ethnic, national or cultural inferiority
Engyon
Engyon (Ancient Greek: ; ; 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: