Tom Holland

Well, basically until they all end up being enslaved at the very end of our series.

Okay.

Yeah.

So they send 30 ambassadors to Scipio.

And Scipio's terms are predictably harsh.

So he tells them that Carthage will have to withdraw all her troops from lands beyond Africa.

The city will be allowed 20 warships, no more than that.

The Carthaginians will have to provision Scipio's army while

People are sent back to Rome to find out whether the Senate agrees to these terms, and they will have to pay another kind of Versailles Treaty-type indemnity in the way that they'd had to do at the end of the previous Punic War.

The Senate is very reluctant.

to agree to these terms because they can see that it effectively spells, you know, the end of their city as a great power.

But they feel they haven't really got any choice.

So they say, yeah, well, okay.

The terms are taken to Rome and the treaty is there ratified by the Roman Senate.

Simultaneously, however, they haven't completely given up the fight because, of course,

Back in Italy, in Brutium, the heel of Italy, Hannibal and his army are still there.

Yeah, they say, listen, you're completely wasting your time there.

Come back to Africa.

We, you know, we really need you.

And so they send him a transport fleet.