Passage 4.23.9
Γόργος δὲ καὶ Μάντικλος παρῃτοῦντο Ἀναξίλαν μὴ σφᾶς, ὑπὸ συγγενῶν ἀνδρῶν πεπονθότας ἀνόσια, ὅμοια αὐτοὺς ἐς ἀνθρώπους Ἕλληνας ἀναγκάσαι δρᾶσαι. μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο ἤδη τοὺς Ζαγκλαίους ἀνίστασαν ἀπὸ τῶν βωμῶν καὶ ὅρκους δόντες καὶ αὐτοὶ παρʼ ἐκείνων λαβόντες ᾤκησαν ἀμφότεροι κοινῇ· ὄνομα δὲ τῇ πόλει μετέθεσαν Μεσσήνην ἀντὶ Ζάγκλης καλεῖσθαι.
But Gorgus and Manticlus pleaded with Anaxilas, urging that he should not force them, who had suffered impious wrongs at the hands of their own kinsmen, to commit similar actions against fellow Greeks. After this, they subsequently removed the people of Zancle from the altars, and after giving and receiving oaths from one another, they settled down together jointly; and they changed the name of the city, calling it Messene instead of Zancle.