Agis' wealthy mother and grandmother, who surrender…

The war in Asia Minor and the Aegean intensifies as the Achaean League allies itself to Egypt, while Seleucus, maintaining himself in the interior of Asia Minor, secures two allies in the Black Sea region.

To consolidate his position, Seleucus is forced to concede territory in Anatolia to the rulers of Cappadocia and …

…Pontus.

Corinth had not remained in Achaean control for long, as in about 244 BCE it was retaken by Antigonus

Aratus, without a declaration of hostilities, in 243 makes a surprise attack on Corinth, capturing Acrocorinth, forcing the withdrawal of the Macedonian occupation troops, and bringing the city permanently into the Achaean League.

Megara, …

…Troezen, and …

…Epidaurus also desert Gonatus, who, not attempting to regain these territories, instead forms an alliance with …

…the Aetolian League, which makes unsuccessful raids of pillage into the Peloponnese.

Three Roman fleets have successively been wrecked by the elements, but the actions of Hamilcar, and his immunity to defeat, plus the stalemate at the siege of Lilybaeum, may have caused the desperate Romans to start building a new fleet of two hundred ships in 243 BCE.

The Roman Republic is broke and nearly exhausted and has to borrow money from wealthy citizens to fund the construction.

The ephors of 242 BCE try to restore Leonidas to his throne, but a board headed by Agesilaus replaces them.

The new Roman fleet blockades the Carthaginian positions in 242 BCE.