[150] The brave Messenians escaped to Mount Lyceum in Arcadia, and afterward the greater part, invited by Anaxilaus, their own countryman, prince of the Dorian colony at Rhegium in Italy, conquered with him the Zanclaeans of Sicily, and named the conquered town Messene.

It still preserves the name [151].

But Aristomenes, retaining indomitable hatred to Sparta, refused to join the colony.

Yet hoping a day of retribution, he went to Delphi.

What counsel he there received is unrecorded.