Capitolo 54
gone to the direction in Rome. They immediately inflicted that he was
going to appeal to the Roman people for help, and they determined that,
if that were the case, the Roman people, before deciding in his/her favor,
you/he/she should have the opportunity to feel their side of the history as
his. They immediately manufactured accordingly preparations to send a lot a
imposing embassage to Rome. The deputation consisted more that a
one hundred people. The object of the government of Berenice in to send so great
a number you not only have to show their respect for the Roman people, and
their sense of the magnitude of the question in matter, but also to protect
against some efforts that it is probable that Ptolemy makes to intercept the embassage
on the way, or to buy away his members from gifts. The number,
however great as it was, it showed him insufficient to bring defeasible this purpose.
The Roman and whole world was to this point in such condition of trouble
and the violence, in the hands of the desperate and unwise soldier
leader that then they annoyed hesitation that there was abundant everywhere
installations for the errand of some conceivable crime. Ptolemy
affected, with the assistance of the fierce partisans that you/he/she was gotten married
his/her cause, and of what interested was deeply in his/her success on account
the rewards that were them promised, to extend an ambush and to destroy a great
proportion of this society before they arrived to Rome. Some were
murdered; some were poisoned; some were inserted with and they bought away
from gifts. A small rest arrived to Rome; but they was intimidated so that
the dangers that surrounded them, that they didn't dare to take some
public action in in comparison to the business to which you/he/she had been committed
their position. Ptolemy started to congratulate him on to have completely
swindled his/her daughter in his/her efforts to protect himself/herself/themselves against his
sketches.
Instead of that, it tried soon however that the effect of this
atrocious disloyalty was precisely the contrary one of that that its perpetrators