Himilco takes the time to negotiate with…

Himilco takes the time to negotiate with the Campanians at Aetna, offering them to switch sides.

They had given Dionysius hostages and their best troops are still serving with the Greek army, so they choose to stay loyal to the Greek tyrant.

The victory at Catana, which enables the Carthaginians to proceed and lay siege to Syracuse in 397 BCE, has not only reduced the naval power of Syracuse, but it has also decreased the strength of the Greeks army by causing other Sicilian Greeks to desert Dionysius.

Himilco now besieges Syracuse.