The principal points of the condition proposed were as follows. <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Carthage&groupId=441&placeId=820">Carthage</a> was to retain all the cities she formerly possessed in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Africa&groupId=300&placeId=294">Africa</a> before entering on the last war with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, all her former territory, all flocks, herds, slaves, and other property:
from that day onward the Carthaginians were to suffer no injury, they were to be governed by their own laws and customs and to receive no garrison.
These were the lenient conditions; the others of a contrary kind were as follows: Reparation was to be made to the Romans for all acts of injustice committed by the Carthaginians during the truce: prisoners of war and deserters who had fallen into their hands at any date were to be delivered up: they were to surrender their ships of war with the exception of ten triremes,
and all their elephants: they were not to make war at all on any nation outside <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Africa&groupId=300&placeId=294">Africa</a> and on no nation in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Africa&groupId=300&placeId=294">Africa</a> without consulting <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>:
they were to restore to King Massanissa, within the boundaries that should subsequently be assigned, all houses, lands, and cities, and other property which had belonged to him or to his ancestors:
they were to contribute ten thousand talents in fifty years, paying two hundred Euboic talents each year:
finally they were to give as surety a hundred hostages chosen by the Roman general from among their young men between the age of fourteen and thirty.
Walbank Commentary