Capitolo 21
the Cleopatra that is the principal subject of this account. He was
Ptolemy Physcon, the seventh one in the line. It is necessary to give some
details of his/her history and that of his/her family to explain
the circumstances under which same Cleopatra came on the stage. The
you call Physcon that later it became his/her historical designation it was
originally the datum in contempt and derision. He was very small of
stature in in comparison to height, but its greediness and the sensuality had done
him immensely corpulent in body, so that he seemed anymore a monster
what an a man. The term Physcon was a Greek word that denoted
opprobriously the ridiculous figure that he has done.
The circumstances of the accession of Ptolemy Physcon to the throne allow him
not only an impressive illustration of his/her character but a very faithful
although terrible portrait of the manners and morals of the times. He had
state taken part in a long and cruel war with his/her brother that was king
in front of him in that the war he had perpetrated all the imaginable atrocities,
when for a long time his/her brother died, while going away as his/her survivors his/her wife that
it was also his/her sister and a child that it was still a child. This child was
properly the heir to the crown. Same Physcon, while being a brother, it had anybody
asks, as against a child. The name of the queen was Cleopatra. This was,
in fact, a very common name among the princesses of the line of Ptolemaic.
Cleopatra, besides his/her child had a daughter that was to this point a youth
and the beautiful girl. Its name was also Cleopatra. You were, clearly, the
nephew, as his/her mother was his/her sister of Physcon.
The plan of Cleopatra his/her mother, after the death of his/her husband it was to do
his/her child the king of Egypt, and to govern him as regent until him
it would owe of age becoming. The friends and adherent of Physcon, however,
formed a strong party for _his_. They sent for him to come to
Alexandria to affirm his/her applications to the throne. He came, and a new civilian
war was on the point to break out between his/her brother and sister,