Capitolo 55
you/he/she was waited. The knowledge of the facts was gradually wide among
the people of Rome and wakened up an universal indignation. The party
who had originally been opposite to the cause of grabbed Ptolemy the
the opportunity to renew their opposition; and they earned so a lot of strength
from the general hate that you/they had wakened up the crimes of Ptolemy that Pompeys,
almost find him/it impossible to sustain his/her cause.
For a long time the opposite party to Ptolemy founded, or it faked to find, in
certain sacred books, called the Sibylline Oracles in which you/they were kept
the priests' custody, and it was supposed to contain prophetic
announce him some wish of Sky in in comparison to the behavior of public
business, the following passage:
_"If that a king of Egypt should apply to you for help, you treat him/it in a
friendly way, but it doesn't furnish him/it with troops; for if You
face, you will incur in the great danger."_
This constituted the new difficulty the friends of Ptolemy. They tried, to
before, to escape this inhaled injunction denying his reality.
Any passage there was such to be found, them they said. It was all a
invention of their enemies. This point seems to have been annulled, and
then they tried to give to the passage of the anything else other than the obvious one
interpretation. Theirs finally maintained that, even if it prohibited
the their mobile same Ptolemy with troops, didn't prevent them
sending an armed force in Egypt under leader of them really. _That_
they could certainly do; and then, when the rebellion was suppressed,
and the overthrown of the government of Berenice, they could invite Ptolemy to
you return to his/her kingdom and takes back his/her crown in a peaceful way. This,
they declared, you/he/she would not be furnishing him/it with troops", and, clearly
the oracle would not be disobeying.
These attempts to escape the direction of the oracle from
The friends of Ptolemy, only made the debates and dissents among them
and his/her enemies more violent than never. Pompey made every effort in his