Capitolo 48
to humanity, that that of some other of the ten Cleopatrases that you/they of rose
subsequently in the same real line.
Ptolemy Auletes, perhaps the father of Cleopatra was, in personal character,
the most dissipated, degraded, and corrupt of all the sovereigns in the
dynasty. Him spent his/her vice of whole time in and depravation. The only honest
completion that he seemed to possess was its ability in to play on
the flute; of this he was very vain. He founded musical disputes, in
what the musical stars of Alexandria played for prizes and crowns;
and him he had accustomed for digitizing you list him with the rest as a
competing. The people of Alexandria and the world in general,
considered such searches like these completely unworthy the attention of the
representative of so illustrious a line of sovereigns and the
abhorrence that they felt for the vices of the monarch and crimes it was
mixed with a feeling of contempt for the baseness of his/her ambition.
There was a doubt in in comparison to his/her title to the crown, for his/her birth,
on the side of his/her/their mother, it was irregular and ignoble. However, instead of
trying to confirm and to assure his/her possession of the power from a vigorous
and prosperous administration of the government, he abandoned completely everybody
pertains to in in comparison to the course of public business; and then, to protect
against the danger to be deposed, he conceived the plan to get
he recognized in Rome as one of the allies of the Roman people. If
this was done once, he supposed that the Roman government would have felt
under an obligation to sustain him/it on his/her throne in the event of some
threatened danger.
The Roman government was a kind of republic and the two more powerful person
men in the state were to this point Pompey and Caesar. Caesar was in the
predominance in Rome to the duration that Ptolemy asked his/her question for a
alliance. Pompey was absent in Smaller Asia, part being taken in to pursue
a war with Mithradates, a very powerful monarch that was to that duration