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Magnae Matris ad Engyium

also: Great Mother at Engyium

Engyium, a small inland town of north-central Sicily celebrated for its ancient sanctuary of the Great Mother (Magna Mater); P. Scipio Aemilianus had returned its plundered cult-objects to the town after the Third Punic War. Verres stripped the sanctuary in his governorship (Verr. 2.4.97).

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Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book IV speech · 1 mention

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