 Siris did not cease to exist, but lapsed into the subordinate condition of the port or emporium of Heraclea.The foundation of the new city is placed by Diodorus in 432 BCE, fourteen years after the settlement of Thurii; a statement which appears to agree well with the above narrative, cited by Strabo from Antiochus of Syracuse.Diodorus, as well as Livy, calls it simply a colony of Tarentum.