They had previously, to prevent the desertion of any of their number, burnt their ships.

Now they shut themselves up in their houses, and set fire each to his own dwelling.

Forty thousand persons lost their lives in the conflagration; and the city was reduced to a heap of ruins, which Ochus sold for a large sum.

Thus ended the Phoenician revolt.

Among its most important results was the transfer of his services to the Persian king on the part of Mentor the Rhodian, who appears to have been the ablest of the mercenary leaders of whom Greece at this time produced so many.
The reduction of Sidon was followed closely by the invasion of Egypt.