Rome sank about fifty Carthaginian ships and captured roughly seventy more. The reported ten thousand prisoners suggest that many crewmen died even aboard vessels that were taken rather than sunk. The defeat ended any realistic prospect of relieving Drepana and Lilybaeum and led to the Treaty of Lutatius. Hanno was executed on returning to Carthage, showing the political danger that defeat posed to a Carthaginian commander.
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The victory that ends the First Punic War
Roman captures and sinkings destroyed the relief effort, made Carthage's remaining Sicilian positions untenable, and forced the peace settlement.