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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientnut, post: 2355582, member: 73212&quot;]Addendum to thread:</p><p>While researching Thermai Himerensis, I found this little piece of history:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Romans returned...to besiege Thermai in 253 BC. Through a stroke of luck the Romans managed to capture the city&#039;s gatekeeper while he was heeding the call of nature outside the walls. They released him in return for the promise that he would open the gates to them at a specified time. The gatekeeper honored his promise, but when the leaders...entered the city, they ordered him to close the gates again so that they could keep the plunder for themselves. Their greed was amply repaid when, cut off from reinforcements, the Thermitan defenders slaughtered them to a man.&quot;</p><p>Hoover, Oliver D., Handbook of coins of Sicily, 2012, p. 418[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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