Treaty to end the First Punic War between Carthage and Rome
Drafted
241 BC
Signed
241 BC With a codicil added in 237 BC
Mediators
Hamilcar Barca
Gaius Lutatius Catulus
Negotiators
Gisco
Gaius Lutatius Catulus
Quintus Lutatius Cerco
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Rome
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Messana
Agrigentum
1st Mytistratus
Lipari Islands
Mylae
Thermae
2nd Mytistratus
Sulci
Tyndaris
Cape Ecnomus
Aspis
Adys
Bagradas (Tunis)
Cape Hermaeum
Panormus
Lilybaeum
Drepana
Phintias
Drepana (siege)
1st Mt Eryx
2nd Mt Eryx
Aegates Islands
Treaty of Lutatius
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The Treaty of Lutatius was the agreement between Carthage and Rome of 241 BC (amended in 237 BC), that ended the First Punic War after 23 years of conflict. Most of the fighting during the war took place on, or in the waters around, the island of Sicily and in 241 BC a Carthaginian fleet was defeated by a Roman fleet commanded by Gaius Lutatius Catulus while attempting to lift the blockade of its last, beleaguered, strongholds there. Accepting defeat, the Carthaginian Senate ordered their army commander on Sicily, Hamilcar Barca, to negotiate a peace treaty with the Romans, on whatever terms he could negotiate. Hamilcar refused, claiming the surrender was unnecessary, and the negotiation of the peace terms was left to Gisco, the commander of Lilybaeum, as the next most senior Carthaginian on the island. A draft treaty was rapidly agreed upon, but when it was referred to Rome for ratification it was rejected.
Rome then sent a ten-man commission to settle the matter. This in turn agreed that Carthage would hand over what it still held of Sicily; relinquish several groups of islands nearby; release all Roman prisoners without ransom, although ransom would need to be paid to secure the release of prisoners held by the Romans; and pay an indemnity of 3,200 talents[note 1] of silver – 82,000 kilograms (81 long tons) – over 10 years. The treaty received its name from the victorious Gaius Lutatius Catulus, who also negotiated the initial draft.
In 237 BC, when Carthage was recovering from a bitter and hard-fought civil war, it prepared an expedition to recover the island of Sardinia, which had been lost to rebels. Cynically, the Romans stated they considered this an act of war. Their peace terms were the ceding of Sardinia and Corsica and the payment of an additional 1,200-talent indemnity – 30,000 kg (30 long tons). Weakened by 30 years of war, Carthage agreed rather than enter into a conflict with Rome again; the additional payment and the renunciation of Sardinia and Corsica were added to the treaty.
^Lazenby 1996, p. 158.
^Scullard 2006, p. 565.
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