Dexagoridas and Gorgopas commanded there, with equal authority.

Dexagoridas had sent to the Roman general a message that he would give up the city; and, after the time and the mode of proceeding had been agreed on, he was slain as a traitor by Gorgopas, and the defence of the city was maintained with redoubled vigour by this single commander.

The further prosecution of the siege would have been much more difficult, had not Titus Quinctius arrived with a body of four thousand chosen men.

He showed his army in order of battle, on the brow of a hill at a small distance from the city; and, on the other side, Lucius Quinctius plied the enemy hard with his engines, both on the quarter of the sea, and of the land; on which Gorgopas was compelled to adopt that proceeding, which, in the case of another, he had punished with death.

After stipulating for liberty to carry away the soldiers whom he had there as a garrison, he surrendered the city to Quinctius.