Capitolo 47
Rome.--The disloyalty of Ptolemy.--His/her consequences.--Opposition to
Ptolemy.--The prophecy.--Attempts to escape the oracle.--Gabinius
it undertakes the cause.--Mark Antony.--His/her history and character.--Antony
in Greece.--He unites him to Gabinius.--Danger to cross the deserts.--Armies
destroyed.--Mark the character of Antony.--His/her personal aspect.--March
through the desert.--Taken Pelusium.--March through the Delta.--Success
of the Romans.--Berenice a prisoner.--The fate of Archelaus.--Pain of
Antony.--The unnatural joy of Ptolemy.
When the time was approaching himself/herself/itself in that Cleopatra appeared on the
you stage, perhaps Rome was the only city as which the could be considered
competing of Alexandria, in the estimate of humanity in in comparison to
interest and the attractiveness as a capital. In a respect, Rome was,
vastly superior to the Egyptian metropolis, and that was in the
magnitude and extension of the military power among which it handled the
the earth's nations. Alexandria dominated on Egypt, and on some of the
near coasts and islands; but during the three centuries
during that she was acquiring his/her greatness and the fame the Roman,
empire was extended on almost the civilized world and whole. Egypt
you/he/she had been, so far, too much remote to directly have arrived; but the business
of same Egypt had involved for a long time with the operations of the
To be able Roman, around the duration of the birth of Cleopatra, in a very impressive and
particular way; and as the consequences of the operation it was the
he/she wants to say of dizziness the whole course of the subsequent history of the queen, a
narration of him is necessary to a correct understanding of the
circumstances under which she started his/her career. In fact, it was the
delay of the Roman empire to the limits of Egypt and the
connections that for this motive they rose among the Roman and principal generals and
the Egyptian sovereign of whom you/he/she has made the history this detail
queen so very more evident, as an object of interest and attention