Capitolo 27
so emphatically in all of his/her terrible career as an exception to the
general character of the princesses in that they appeared at times
the line. In ambition, the egoism, unnatural and unwise cruelty and
the absolute carelessness of every virtuous principle and every national tie,
she was but the type and representative of the whole rest.
You had two daughters, for example that it was the constant and worthy one
followers of such mother. A passage in the lives of these sisters
it very forcedly illustrates some kind of affection of sister that prevailed
in the family of the Ptolemies. The case was this:
There were two principles of Syria, a country false northeast of the
Mediterranean Sea, and so not very away from Egypt that, although they was
brothers, were more in a state deadly hostility to each other. One
you/he/she had tried to poison the other, and after a war you/he/she had broken out
among them, and Syria was suffering from the devastations of them
armies. One of his/her/their sisters, whose we am speaking, he/she married him one
of these principles. Its name was Tryphena. After some time, but still while
the unnatural war was still getting mad among the two brothers, Cleopatra,
the other sister--the same Cleopatra, in fact, that had been granted the divorce to
from Lathyrus to the example of his/her mother--the other brother got married him.
Tryphena against Cleopatra was exaggeratedly incensed for sposarsila
the deadly enemy of husband and the implacable hostility and hate of the
sisters were assistant since then that that they had first his/her brothers
exhibited, to complete the show of unnatural and passion of parricidal
what this ashamed dispute introduced to the world.
In fact, Tryphena from this duration seemed to feel a new and extremely-excited
interest in the dispute, from his/her anxious desire to take revenge on her
sister. You looked at of it the progress, and taken an active part in
pressing in before the active accusation of the war. Her party
husband, or from this or of the other causes it seemed same earning the
day. The husband of Cleopatra was driven from a part of the country to