usand men on the field of
battle, and the like number of prisoners were taken by the Romans.
Hannibal escaped in the tumult, and entering Carthage, owned that he was
irrecoverably overthrown, and that the citizens had no other choice left
than to accept of peace on any conditions. Scipio bestowed great eulogiums
on Hannibal, chiefly with regard to his ability in taking advantages, his
manner of drawing up his army, and giving out his orders in the
engagement; and he affirmed, that Hannibal had this day surpassed himself,
although the success had not answered his valour and conduct.

With regard to himself, he well knew how to make a proper advantage of the
victory, and the consternation with which he had filled the enemy. He
commanded one of his lieutenants to march his land army to Carthage,
whilst himself prepared to conduct the fleet thither.

He was not far from the city, when he met a vessel covered with streamers
and olive-branches, bringing ten of the most considerable persons of the
state, as ambassadors to implore his clemency. However, he dismissed them
without making any answer, and bade them come to him at Tunis, where he
should halt. The deputies of Carthage, thirty in number, came to him at
the place appointed, and sued for peace in the most submissive terms. He
then called a council there, the majority of which were for rasing
Carthage, and treating the inhabitants with the utmost severity. But the
consideration of the time which must necessarily be employed before so
strongly fortified a city could be taken; and Scipio's fear lest a
successor might be appointed him whilst he should be employed in the
siege, made him incline to clemency.

_A Peace concluded between the Carthaginians and the __ Romans. The End of
the Second Punic War._(_806_)--The conditions of the peace dictated by
Scipio to the Carthaginians were, "That the Carthaginians should continue
free, and preserve their laws, their territories, and the cities they
possessed in Africa before the war--That they should deliver up to the
Romans all deserters, slaves, and prisoners belonging to them; all their
ships, except ten triremes; all the elephants which they then had, and
that they should not train up any more for war--That they should not make
war out of Africa, nor even in that country, without first obtaining leave
for that purpose from the Roman people--Should restore to Masinissa every
thing of which they had dispossessed either him or h