Terms Made After the Battle of Zama
The following are the heads of the terms offered
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them:—The Carthaginians to retain the towns
in Libya, of which they were possessed before they
commenced the last war against Rome, and the
territory which they also heretofore held, with
its cattle, slaves, and other stock: and from that day should not
be subject to acts of hostility, should enjoy their own laws and
customs, and not have a Roman garrison in their city.
These
were the concessions favourable to them. The clauses of an
opposite character were as follows:—The Carthaginians to pay
an indemnity to the Romans for all wrongs committed during
the truce; to restore all captives and runaway slaves without
limit of time; to hand over all their ships of war except ten
triremes, and all elephants; to go to war with no people outside
Libya at all, and with none in Libya without consent from
Rome; to restore to Massanissa all houses, territory, and cities
belonging to him or his ancestors within the frontiers assigned to
that king; to supply the Roman army with provisions for three
months, and with pay, until such time as an answer shall be
returned from Rome on the subject of the treaty; to pay ten
thousand talents of silver in fifty years, two hundred Euboic
talents every year; to give a hundred hostages of their good faith,
—such hostages to be selected from the young men of the country
by the Roman general, and to be not younger than fourteen or
older than thirty years.
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