Editing Hamilcar Barca (section)

=== Peace of Lutatius terms of the treaty ===
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This treaty replaced all previous treaties between the two powers. The initial conditions laid out by Lutatius to Gisco were:<ref>Polybius 1.62.8–9</ref>

* The Carthaginians will evacuate all Sicily.
* Carthage should not make war on [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]] and their allies.
* Carthage would pay Rome 2,200 [[Euboea|Euboean]] silver talents (56 tons) over a 20-year period as reparations.
* The Carthaginian army would surrender their weapons and all Roman deserters immediately.

Hamilcar Barca refused the demand to surrender Roman deserters or disarm Carthaginian soldiers, despite being threatened by Lutatius to have the Punic army pass under the yoke.<ref>Diodorus Siculus 24.13, Cornelius Nepos, Hamilcar, 1.5</ref> Lutatius did not press the issue further, and the Carthaginian soldiers were later allowed to leave Sicily under arms with their honor intact,<ref>Polybius, 1.20.6–14</ref> and without any token of submission – a rare gesture granted by the Romans to a defeated enemy. Roman deserters may have been surrendered on a later date.<ref name="Zonaras 8.17">Zonaras 8.17</ref>

Lutatius did not have the authority to ratify the agreement he made with Hamilcar, so he forwarded them to the [[Comitia Centuriata]] in Rome. The Romans rejected these terms and appointed ten commissioners, led by Quantius Lutatius Cerco, brother of the consul and himself consul in 240 BC, to reexamine the conditions.<ref>Valerius Maximus 1.3.1</ref> They added some conditions and amended some of the ones given by Lutatius:<ref>Polybius 1.63.3</ref>

* Carthage would evacuate all islands between Italy and Sicily – probably the Aegates Islands in addition to the [[Aeolian Islands]]. This meant Roman acknowledgement of Carthaginian control over [[Malta]], [[Pantelleria]], [[Sardinia]] and [[Corsica]].
* Carthage would pay 2,200 silver talents in 10 year installments, and 1,000 talents immediately; a total of 3,200 talents as war reparations.
* Carthage will ransom all Punic prisoners, while all Roman prisoners would be freed without payment of ransom.<ref>Eutropius 2.27.4</ref>
* Carthaginian warships were forbidden to sail along Italian shores or those of their allies.<ref name="Zonaras 8.17" />
* Neither side should make war on the other's allies, or seek to change their allegiance by allying with them directly or interfering with their internal affairs. Neither side would seek to recruit soldiers, levy tribute or build public buildings on the other power's territories.<ref>Polybius 3.27.2–3</ref>

The last condition is mentioned by [[Polybius]] in place of the one regarding not making war on Syracuse. It is possible that Hamilcar Barca secured the last clause after the initial conditions, which were more favorable to Carthage, was altered by Rome with a harsher one. Hamilcar Barca gathered the Carthaginian soldiers from Drepana and Eryx at Lilybaeum, surrendered his command,<ref>Polybius 1.66.1, 68.12, Zonaras 8.17</ref> returned to Carthage and retired to private life, leaving Gisco and the Carthaginian government to pay off his soldiers. Whatever was the motivation behind this act, it was resented by the mercenaries left behind in Sicily.