Capitolo 56
you motorize to help the cause of Ptolemy; but Lentulus, after long hesitation and
differs, definite that would not have been sure for him to embark in him. To
however, length that Gabinius, the lieutenant that commanded in Syria was
incited to undertake the enterprise. On certain promises that him
received by Ptolemy, to be finished in case he succeeded, and with a
certainly encouragement, not very legal or to regulate, what Pompey gave him/it,
in in comparison to the job of the Roman troops under his/her command, him
resolved to march to Egypt. Its run of routing, would clearly lie along the
beaches of the Mediterranean Sea, and through the desert, to Pelusium,
what you/he/she has already been mentioned as the city of frontier on this side of
Egypt. From Pelusium he was to march through the heart of the Delta to
Alexandria, and, if succeeded in his/her invasion, overthrow the government
of Berenice and Archelaus, and then, inviting Ptolemy to return,
rehabilitate him/it on the throne.
In the accusation of this dangerous enterprise, Gabinius counted,
strongly on the assistance of a very extraordinary man, then his/her second in
you command that later a very important part acted in the subsequent one
history of Cleopatra. Its name was Mark Antony. Antony was born in Rome,
of a very separate family, but his/her father died when he was a lot
young, and being left accordingly very to him, he became a lot a
young wild and dissolute. He wasted the ownership that his/her father
you/he/she had left him in folly and vice; and going above hopelessly then in the
same career, him incurred in soon enormous debts, and it got involved, in
consequence, in inextricable difficulty. His/her creditors continually
molests him/it with importunity for money, and with suits to law to
forces payments that he didn't have anybody means to do. He was likewise
pursued by the hostility of the many enemies that he incessantly had
served in the city as his/her violence and his/her crimes. For a long time he escaped,
and it went to Greece.