It was not till the fourth day after their arrival that they commenced the attack, the interval having been spent in secret conferences with Plator, whom Philip had made commandant of the garrison. The city has two citadels, one overlooking the sea, the other in the heart of the city. From the latter a subterranean e leacts crown to the sea. and at one time terminated in a tower five storeys high, which formed an imposing defence. Here a violent contest took place, for the tower was plentifully stored with missiles of every kind, and the engines and artillery had been brought up from the ships for use against the walls. Whilst every one's attention was engrossed by the struggle going on here; Plator admitted the Romans through the gate of the seaward citadel, and this 二。。."a ntrirnd，企nn rP waters, he found that the town was protected the one side by the sea, and on the other, the land side, Q，Q n少 very fortifications, whilst the strength of its garrison and the of the officers so different from the duplicity and treason at Oreus, made it impregnable. After surve 户g the difficulties of his position, the Roman commander acted，wisely in desisting_, from his rash enterprise, and without any turtner loss of time sailed away to Cvnos in Locris.a place situated about a mile from the sea which served as the emporium of the Opuntians.