High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The First Macedonian War (214 BC – 205 BC) was fought by Rome, allied (after 211 BC) with the Aetolian League and Attalus I of Pergamon, against Philip V of Macedon, contemporaneously with the Second Punic War (218 – 201 BC) against Carthage. There were no decisive engagements, and the war ended in a stalemate.