Himilco chose to plant a city at Mt. Taurus, where some Sicels had already settled,[REF] and populated it with allied Sicels and fortified the place, and in doing so killed several birds with a single stone.
Epaminondas of Thebes in 370 BC used the same strategy when he rebuilt Messene and founded Megalopolis in Spartan territory after failing to take Sparta by force, and decreased their territory and manpower successfully [REF].