That they would retain possession of their city itself and their household gods only, in case the Roman people should refrain from venting their indignation upon these, which is all that remains for them to do.

When it was manifest that the fathers were moved by compassion, it is said that one of the senators, violently incensed at the perfidy of the Carthaginians, immediately asked with a loud voice, by what gods they would swear in striking the league, since they had broken their faith with those by whom they swore in striking the former one?
By those same, replied Hasdrubal, who have shown such determined hostility to the violators of treaties.
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The minds of all being disposed to peace, Cneius Lentulus, whose province the fleet was, protested against the decree of the senate.
Upon this, Manius Acilius and Quintus Minucius, tribunes of the people, put the question to the people, whether they willed and ordered that the senate should decree that peace should be made with the Carthaginians?
whom they ordered to grant that peace, and whom to conduct the army out of Africa?
All the tribes ordered respecting the peace according as the question had been put.

That Publius Scipio should grant the peace, and that he also should conduct the army home.

Agreeably to this order, the senate decreed that Publius Scipio, acting according to the opinion of the ten deputies, should make peace with the Carthaginian people on what terms he pleased.