Capitolo 15
THE PTOLEMIES.
The dynasty of the Ptolemies.--The founder.--Phillip of
Macedon.--Alexander.--The intrigue discovered.--Ptolemy
bandit.--Alexander's accession.--The elevation of Ptolemy.--Death of
Alexander.--Ptolemy becomes King of Egypt.--Character of Ptolemy
kingdom.--The library of Alexandrian.--The abdication of Ptolemy.--Ptolemy
Philadelphus.--Death of Ptolemy.--Subsequent degeneration of the
Ptolemies.--Incestuous marriages of the family of Ptolemy.--Ptolemy
Physcon.--Origin of his/her name.--Circumstances of Physcon
accession.--Cleopatra.--The brutal perfidity of Physcon.--He marries him his
wife's daughter.--The atrocities of Physcon.--His/her flight.--Cleopatra supposes
the government.--His/her birth-day.--The barbarity of Physcon.--Pain of
Cleopatra.--General character of the family of Ptolemy.--Lathyrus.
--Terrible disputes with his/her mother.--The cruelties of Cleopatra.
--Alexander kills him.--Cleopatra a type of the family.--His/her
two daughters.--Unnatural war.--The hate of Tryphena of his/her sister.--Taking
of Antioch.--Cleopatra runs away to a temple.--The jealousy of Tryphena.--His/her
increases of resentment.--Cruel and sacreligious murder.--The moral one
the condition of humanity to degenerate.
The founder of the dynasty of the Ptolemies--the rule in which the hands
the kingdom of skin of Egypt, as you/he/she has already been affirmed, to the death of
Alexander the Gran--it was a Macedonian general the army of Alexander. The
circumstances of his/her birth and the events that conducted to his/her registration
in the service of Alexander, it was rather particular. His/her mother which
name was Arsinoe, it was a favorite personnel and companion of Phillip king,
of Macedon, Alexander's father. Phillip gave for a long time Arsinoe in
marriage to a certain man of his/her court called Lagus. Very short once
after the marriage, Ptolemy was born. Phillip treated his/her child with the
the same consideration and favor that he had shown toward his/her mother. The
boy had called the child of Lagus but his/her position in the real court of