These reasons had brought back Damocritus and the Aetolians to the interest of the Romans.

Marching out, therefore, in conjunction with Amynander, king of the Athamanians, they laid siege to Cercinium.

The inhabitants here had shut their gates, whether of their own choice or by compulsion is unknown, as they had a garrison of the king's troops.
However, in a few days Cercinium was taken and burned; and after great slaughter had been made, those who survived, both freemen and slaves, were carried off amongst other spoil.

This caused such terror, as made all those who dwelt round the lake Baebius abandon their cities and fly to the mountains: and the Aetolians, in the absence of booty, turned away from thence, and proceeded into Perrhaebia.

There they took Cyretiae by storm and sacked it unmercifully.