Professor Josephine Quinn
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A massive amount of money.
They have to hand over all their elephants.
And they have to reduce their fleet to ten ships.
The rest of the fleet is burned.
It's like... There you go, chief.
He does disappear from the records for a few years after that.
But then he comes back.
So he comes back to politics in Carthage, you know, where he hasn't been since he's a child.
He becomes one of the two shoffets, who are the two kind of senior magistrates at Carthage.
The next year, he gets into trouble with Rome.
So the Romans by now have moved on.
They're fighting the king of Syria, the Seleucid king, Antiochus III.
And they hear that Hannibal is in contact with Antiochus III.
And even though... He can't let it go.
Yeah, even though Scipio himself defends Hannibal in the Roman Senate, they believe that he's plotting behind their back.