INSULAE in 241. Hamilcar was left in Sicily without support and
supplies. He saw that peace must be made.

Sicily was surrendered. Carthage agreed to pay the cost of the war,--
about $3,000,000,--one third down, and the remainder in ten annual
payments. Thus ended the First Punic War.




CHAPTER XIII.

ROME AND CARTHAGE BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND PUNIC WARS (241-218).


Twenty-three years elapsed between the First and Second Punic Wars.
The Carthaginians were engaged during the first part of this time in
crushing a mutiny of their mercenary troops.

Rome, taking advantage of the position in which her rival was placed,
seized upon SARDINIA and CORSICA, and, when Carthage objected,
threatened to renew the war, and obliged her to pay more than one
million dollars as a fine (237).

The acquisition of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica introduced into the
government of Rome a new system; viz. the PROVINCIAL SYSTEM.

Heretofore the two chief magistrates of Rome, the Consuls, had
exercised their functions over all the Roman possessions. Now Sicily
was made what the Romans called a _provincia_, or PROVINCE.