Capitolo 19
you cause to refer more particularly to this library in the next chapter.
Besides pursuing these splendid schemes for the enlargement of
Egypt, King Ptolemy was busy, during almost him the whole period of his
kingdoms, in to undertake incessant wars with the surrounding nations. He hocked
in these wars, partly, for the purpose to extend the confinements of
his/her empire, and partly for the self-defence against the aggressions and
the abuses of the other powers. He finally succeeded in to establish his
I reign on the most stable and permanent base, and then, when he was
drawing toward the closing of his/her life, being in fact more than eighty years of
you grow old, he abdicated his/her throne for his younger child which the name
it was also Ptolemy, Ptolemy that his/her father, the founder of the dynasty is
known commonly in history from the name of Ptolemy Soter. His/her child is
Called Ptolemy Filadelfia. This child, although the more youth, was
preferred to his/her brothers as heir to the throne on account of his/her being
the child of the most favorite and beloved of the wives of the monarch. The
the determination of Soter to abdicate the throne he rose from his
desires to put this favorite child in sure possession of him in front of his
death to prevent the oldest brothers to dispute the
succession. The crowning of Philadelphus was done more anymore one of the
magnificent and imposing ceremonies that it pumps real and ever protected
systematized. Two years later Ptolemy that his/her father is dead, and you/he/she was buried from
his/her child with an almost equal magnificence to that of his/her his/her own crowning.
Its body was deposited in a splendid mausoleum for which had been built
Alexander's rests; and so tall it was the veneration that was felt
from humanity for the greatness of his/her enterprises and the shine of his
you reign that honor divine they were paid to his/her memory. Man was the origin
of the great dynasty of the Ptolemies.
Some of the first sovereigns of the line followed in of the degree the
honorable example put them from the founder separate of him; but this