Accordingly it was in solemn council resolved that the Phoenician should be employed in future only for subordinate enterprises and for giving advice--with the reservation, of course, that the advice should never be followed.
Hannibal revenged himself on the rabble, by accepting every commission and brilliantly executing all.
States of Asia Minor In Asia Cappadocia adhered to the great-king; Prusias of Bithynia on the other hand took, as always, the side of the stronger.

King Eumenes remained faithful to the old policy of his house, which was now at length to yield to him its true fruit.

He had not only persistently refused |the offers of Antiochus, but had constantly urged the Romans to a war, from which he expected the aggrandizement of his kingdom.

The Rhodians and Byzantines likewise joined their old allies.

Egypt too took the side of Rome and offered support in supplies and men; which, however, the Romans did not accept.
Macedonia In Europe the result mainly depended on the position which Philip of Macedonia would take up.