The Mamertini (Mamertines), the body of Campanian mercenaries who had been employed by Agathocles and now, having seized the stronghold of Messana, dominate northeastern Sicily.
In 282, the aid Phintias of Agrigento, who had founded a city next to the modern Licata, in ruthlessly destroying destroyed Gela to crush its power forever.
The city subsequently disappears from the chronicles.
