Capitolo 53
it was to receive his/her action after all in case Ptolemy should be never
restored. Pompey was interested accordingly in to favor the reality
fugitive's cause. He received him/it in his/her building, it entertained him in
magnificent style, and taken immediate measures to bring his/her cause
in front of the Roman Senate, exhorting on that body the adoption of immediate
and vigorous measures to effect his/her restoration as an ally that
they was tied up to protect against his/her rebellious subjects. There was to
before the opposition in the Roman Senate against the cause marrying himself/herself/itself of
such man, but you/he/she had put down soon, being overpowered partly from
The authority of Pompey, and partly made to keep silent from the promises of Ptolemy and
gifts. The Senate determined to restore the king to its throne, and
started to manufacture setups to bring the measure in effect.
The Roman provinces nearer to Egypt Cilicia and Syria, countries were
situated on the Oriental and northeastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea,
northerly in Judea. The situated strengths in these provinces would be, of
course, the most convenient to furnish the necessary troops for the
consignment. The province of Cilicia was under the command of the consul
Lentulus. Lentulus was to this point to Rome; he had mended the
capital for of the provisional purpose, leaving his/her province and the troops
situated under the command, for the time there, of a kind of lieutenant
Called Gabinius and general. It was concluded that this Lentulus, with his
Syrian strengths, should undertake the assignment to rehabilitate Ptolemy on his
throne.
While these plans and setups were still immature, a circumstance
it happened what it threatened, for once, completely to defeat them. It seems
what when the father of Cleopatra left Egypt before, he had provoked a relationship to
circulates there that he had been killed in the revolt. The object of
this stratagem was to cover and to conceal its flight. The government of
Berenice discovered soon the truth, and it learned that the fugitive had