Not really. Hannibal didn't wait around to see if the Senate would offer peace terms--he did send an envoy to gauge the Senate's intentions, by offering to sell back the Roman prisoners (the Socii had, as per Hannibal's usual practice, been set free, after being told that Carthage meant to free Italy from the Roman oppressors, not enslave her to a new master); but when the Senators refused to pruchase the prisoners' freedom, on the grounds that, being defeated, they had disgraced Rome, the Carthaginians realised there would be no peace just yet. In any case, after resoundingly defeating the Romans, Hannibal had already moved on to the third phase of his plan: gaining the support of Rome's erstwhile allies and laying the foundations of an Italic federation that would hemm Rome into the Latium.
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