THE WAES FOE SUPREMACY IN THE EAST.

THE peace of the year 201 BC between Rome and Carthage had not put an end to hostilities in all the countries which had been the theatre of the Hannibalic 200-196 a degree of determination and energy which they had failed tlie to display for a long time.

Nor could Spain be transferred without much difficulty from the dominion of Carthage of Car to that of Rome.

The Spaniards had hoped to find in the Romans their deliverers from a hateful oppression, not new and more exacting masters.

The proud and war- like nation, impatient of control, struggled hard, before it would submit.