), was an ancient town of Sicily, situated in the southwest of the island, on the river Hypsas (today the Belice).
It is mentioned in historical times by Herodotus as the place of confinement to which Scythes, the ruler of Zancle (modern Messina), was sent by Hippocrates, who had taken him prisoner.
Aelian, who copies the narrative of Herodotus, represents Scythes as a native of Inycum; but this is probably a mistake.
Plato speaks of Inycum as still in existence in his time, but quite a small place (Χωρίον πάνυ σμικρόν); notwithstanding which he makes the sophist Hippias boast that he had derived from it a sum of 20 minae.
s. v.) Vibius Sequester is the only author that affords any clue to its position, by telling us that the river Hypsas (the modern Belice) flowed by it (Vib.