A Carthaginian Peace
Versailles, the Treaty of Lutatius, and the Three Documents of 241–237 BC
The phrase “Carthaginian peace” entered the modern vocabulary through the debate over Versailles, yet those who use it rarely test the label against the settlement Carthage actually signed. This paper distinguishes three documents behind the single name — the soldiers’ draft, the treaty ratified at Rome, and the addendum of 237 — and argues that it is the last of these, condemned by Rome’s own historian as contrary to all justice, that truly answers to the Versailles pattern.
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