 After a forty-day siege, the Roman soldiers stormed the city and, despite Herod's pleas for restraint, acted without mercy, pillaging and killing all in their path, prompting Herod to complain to Antony.Herod finally resorted to bribing Sosius and his troops in order that they would not leave him "king of a desert".Antigonus was forced to surrender to Sosius, and was sent to Antony for the triumphal procession in Rome.