 In the Second Macedonian War it was taken by the Romans by assault in 200 BCE.Soon afterwards, in 196 BCE, it was declared free by Titus Quinctius Flamininus along with the other Grecian states.Pliny the Elder mentions it among the cities of Euboea no longer existent in his time , but it still occurs in the lists of Ptolemy writing in the second century CE, under the corrupt form of Σωρεός - Soreus or Soreos.