Timoleon

Having thus supplied himself with grain and money, he did not give up the place, nor did he go back again to the citadel, but fenced in the circumference of Achradina, united it by his fortifications with the acropolis, and guarded both.

Mago and Hicetas were already near Catana, when a horseman from Syracuse overtook them and told them of the capture of Achradina.

They were confounded by the tidings and went back in haste, having neither taken the city against which they went forth, nor kept the one they had.

In these successes, then, foresight and valour might still dispute the claims of Fortune; but that which followed them would seem to have been wholly due to good fortune.