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of the purposes that they had in sight. The building of the Pharos, the
removal of the statue of Serapis and the endowment of the Museum and
the library is the great conceptions, and they was brought in effect in
the most complete and perfect way. All the other operations that
they conceived and they performed for the delay and enlargement of the
city was conceived and it performed in the same spirit of scientific and
illuminated liberality. Roads were open; the most splendid buildings
you/he/she was built; basins, benches and breakwater were built, and
fortitudes and towers were armed and you/they were furnished of garrison. Then every means were
assumed to attract to the city a great competed more anymore by all the
nations extremely-civilized that they exist then. The tallest allurements were
proposed to dealers, the mechanics and artisans to make their city
abode. Poets, painters, sculptural, and studious of every nation and
degree was made welcome, and every facility if it were them permitted for the
accusation of their various searches. These plans were eminently everybody
succeeded. Alexandria quickly of rose to the tallest consideration and
importance; and, to the duration when Cleopatra--been born to preside on this
scene of the magnificence and the shine--it came on the stage, the city had
but a competitor in the world. That competitor was Rome.
I CAPITULATE IV.
THE FATHER OF CLEOPATRA.
Rome the competitor of Alexandria.--Extension of their rule.--Delay of the
I reign Roman.--The father of Cleopatra.--The ignoble birth of Ptolemy.--Caesar and
Pompey.--Ptolemy purchases the alliance in Rome.--Taxes to raise the
money.--You turns to Alexandria.--The flight of Ptolemy.--Berenice.--His/her
marriage with Seleucus.--The early life of Cleopatra.--Ptolemy an object of
contempt.--The interview of Ptolemy with Cato.--Character of
Cato.--The reception of Ptolemy.--The suggestion of Cato to him.--Ptolemy arrives to
Rome.--His/her question to Pompey.--Action of the Roman senate.--Plans
to restore Ptolemy.--Measures of Berenice.--His/her embassage to