Based on your 240 pic, this is what I would do. Fortify northern Italy along the mountains there, I wouldn't bother with Illyria, expect to maybe expand the Getai there and offer them an alliance. If your at war with Sweboz, I'd recommend keeping it defensive, or else cheating and paying them a huge sum for peace so that they go elsewhere. The arvernii, are dead now? I would also go for peace, same with Aedui, and support Iberia expanding to attack the other barbarians.
The only Offensive I would perform is killing carthage, and siezing the rest of western north africa. Maybe take the coastal Iberian provinces, but you want them to grow out of Iberia and fight the sweboz, who, what I'd like to see anyhow, is fighting the getai and the Iberians from their good sized empire. Who's got Cyrene? I'd recommend handing it off to the KH, give them a free home and a alliance if permitted, role playing wise, free greeks should be a goal. Also, by passing off Cyrene, you'll put a barrier in africa between you and seleukia. I would let everything play out in Asia, and merely sit until they truly become a superpower. Indeed, I would personally hope they reach into greece and stare at you from Ambrakia.
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