A total rout ensued, twenty thousand men were killed, and as many taken prisoners.33.Hannibal, who had done all that a great and undaunted general could perform, fled with a small body of horse to Adrume'tum; fortune seeming to delight in confounding his ability, his valour, and experience.
34.

This victory brought on a peace.

The Carthaginians, by Hannibal's advice, submitted to the conditions which the Romans dictated, not as rivals, but as sovereigns.35.By this treaty the Carthaginians were obliged to quit Spain, and all the islands in the Mediterranean.

They were bound to pay ten thousand talents in fifty years; to give hostages for the delivery of their ships and their elephants; to restore to Massanis'sa all the territories that had been taken from him; and not to make war in Africa but by the permission of the Romans.

Thus ended the second Punic war, seventeen years after it had begun.
_Questions for Examination_.
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