Several Questions.

[Jebivjetar]

I just found where i read it.
It's in the chapter about carthaginian elephants in the book Hannibal by Gavin De Beer.

I will try to translate the part in question:
We know that Ptolemy II gave to Carthage a lot of financial help,. We can also assume that he sent them elephants, which was possible, since rome did not yet control the seas

Well, it seems that Ptolies changed their attitude after the first punic war.

But one thing i do not understand: didn't Hannibal marched into Italy through Spain because he could not do that from the sea witch was controlled by Romans? I mean, in many books that is the main explanation why Hannibal crossed the Alps to reach Italy: sea was blocked by the Romans.