suddenly withdrew with all his forces and returned to Carthage. (Plut. Timol. 12, 13, 16–20; Diod. xvi. 68–70, who, however, erroneously places the departure of Mago before the surrender of Dionysius.) Hicetas was now unable to prevent Timoleon from making himself the master of Syracuse. Once Timoleon had settled affairs in Syracuse, he turned his arms against Leontini, and would probably have succeeded in expelling Hicetas from there as well, had not the Carthaginian invasion at that time required all his attention. But after his great victory in the Battle of the Crimissus (339 BC), Timoleon soon resumed his project of completely freeing Sicily from the tyrants. Hicetas had concluded a league with Mamercus, ruler of Catana, and they were supported by a body of Carthaginian auxiliaries sent to them by Gisco; but though they at first gained some partial successes, Hicetas was totally defeated by Timoleon at the river Damurias, and soon after fell into the hands of the enemy, by whom he was put to death, together with his son Eupolemus. His wife and daughters were carried to Syracuse, where they were executed, by order of the people, in vengeance for the fate of Arete and Aristomache. (Plut. Timol. 21, 24, 30–33; Diod. xvi. 72, 73, 81, 82.) References Ancient Greek generals Ancient Syracusans Sicilian tyrants 4th-century BC Greek people 330s BC deaths Year of birth unknown