drubal replied. since they visit their wrath on those who 1， violate treaties." XLIIL Peace concluded. Whilst all were in favour of peace the consul Cnaeus Lentulus, who was in command of the fleet, prevented the House from passing any resolution. Thereupon, two tribunes of the plebs, Manius Acilius and Q. Minucius, at once brought the questions before the people:Was it their will and pleasure that the senate should pass a decree for the conclusion of peace with Carthage?Who was to grant the peace?and Who was to bring away the army from Africa? the question of peace all the tribes voted in the affirmative; y also made an order that Scipio should grant the peace and bring the army home. In pursuance of this decision the senate decreed that’P, Scipio should, in agreement with the ten commissioners, make peace with the people or Carthage on such terms as he thought 吨ht. On this the Carthaginians expressed their thanks to比， senators, and begged that they might be allowed to enter the City and converse with their fellow-countrymen who were detained as State-prisoners.27 These were members of the nobility, some of them their own friends and relations, and others there were for whom they had messages from their friends at home. When this was arranged they made a further request that they might be allowed to ransom any of the prisoners whom they wished. They were told to furnish the names, and they gave in about two hundred. The senate then passed a resolution that a commission should be appointed to take back to P. Scipio in Africa two hundred of the prisoners whom the Carthaginians had selected and to inform him that if peace were established he was to restore them to the Carthaginians without ransom. When the fetials received orders to proceed to Africa for the purpose of striking the treaty they requested the senate to define the procedure. The senate accordingly decided upon this formula:“The fetials shall take with them their own The Carthaginian envoys were at length dismissed and returned to Scipio. They concluded peace with him on the terms mentioned above, and delivered up their warships, their elephants, the·deserters and refugees and 4000 prisoners including Q. Terentius Calleo, a senator. Scipio ordered the ships to be taken out to sea and burnt. Some authorities state that there were 500 vessels, comprising every class by oars. The sight of all those vessels suddenly bui flames caused as much护of to the people as if Carthage itself were burning. The deserters were dealt with much more severely than the fugitives; Latin contingents were beheaded, the