Capitolo 49
withstanding the Roman power. Caesar was very deeply involved in debt, and
it was, besides, a lot in need of money, not only for the relief from
existing embarrassments, but as a mean for subsequent expense, to
train him to bring defeasible the some great political schemes that he was
entertaining. After a lot of negotiations and delays, you/he/she had agreed, that
Caesar would practice his/her influence to assure an alliance among the Roman
people and Ptolemy, to condition that Ptolemy paid him/it the sum of you are
thousand talents, equalize to approximately six millionses of dollars. A part of the
money, said Caesar, it was for Pompey.
The title of ally was conferred, and undertook Ptolemy to raise the
money to which he had promised to increase the taxes of his/her kingdom. The
however, measures that he adopted so for the purpose to do
him the surest in his/her possession of the throne, tried to be
the means of overthrowing him. The dissatisfaction and disaffection of his
people that had been first strong and universal although suppressed
and hidden, it stormed out now in the open violence. What us should be
staid on them, besides all of their other loads this new
oppressions, heavier than those that they had borne before, and
exact for such purpose you/he/she would not also be borne. To be forced
to see their country sold on some terms to the Roman people was
sufficiently hard to be born; but to be forced to raise, them and
you pay the price of the transfer, it was absolutely intolerable. Alexandria
started a revolt. Ptolemy was not a man to clearly act against this way
a demonstration, or, in fact, to show or calm or the courage in
some emergency anything. Its first thought was to escape from Alexandria
to save his/her life. The his/her according to, to make the best of his/her way to Rome to
do I call to the Roman people to come to the help of their ally!
Ptolemy left five children behind him in his/her flight Him the more old man was the
Princess Berenice that you/he/she had already reached the maturity. The second was the
great Cleopatra, the subject of this history. Cleopatra was, to this