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Nothing off the top of my head. Ancient generals basically never met face to face like this - the one exception I can think of is Valerian's surrender at Edessa (260) where he was betrayed and captured, but this was *after* the battle (which Valerian had lost).
My *sense* is that this is really an 18th/19th century convention (along with the 'Honors of War') which gets retrojected backwards (typically as a sign that earlier warfare as primitive and quaint), not a common feature of the pre-modern world.
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More often, negotiations, if they were done, were done through ambassadors and heralds, or by letter exchanges.
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I can't point to a specific book on the subject though - this is just my sense of having read a LOT of pre-modern battle narratives. Sometimes you exchange letters, maybe there is a last-ditch negotiation with heralds. Generals and kings don't normally meet in person.
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What about Hannibal and Scipio Africanus meeting before Zama. Or Sulla and Mithridates meeting to negotiate an end to their war. Or Harold Godwinson meeting with Harold Hardrada at Stamford Bridge. Or Henry II and Philip Augustus negotiating a truce at Gisors.
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I also seem to recall some story about two brothers who were both vying to be Emperor in Rome meeting in person to negotiate (which resulted in one of the brothers murdering the other), but I forget their names.
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