 Moagetes and his friends went to meet Manlius dressed in humble clothing, bewailing the weakness of his town and begging to accept the fifteen talents.Manlius was 'amazed at his impudence' and said that if he did not pay 500 talents, he would lay his lands to waste and sack the city.Moagetes successfully persuaded him to reduce the sum to 100 talents and promised an amount of grain, and Manlius moved on.