Cleopatra

Jacob Abbott

Capitolo 61

generosity.--Anecdote.--Antony and Cleopatra.--Antony returns
Rome.--The assassins of Ptolemy.--Pompey and Caesar.--Closes of Ptolemy
kingdom.--Setup of the succession.--Accession of Cleopatra.--You are
him gotten married to his/her brother.--Pothinus, the eunuch.--His/her character and
government.--Machinations of Pothinus.--Cleopatra is expelled.
--The army of Cleopatra.--It disputes that approaches.--Caesar and Pompey.
--Battle of Pharsalia.--Pompey to Pelusium.--Disloyalty of
Pothinus.--The search of Caesar of Pompey.--His/her danger.--Caesar to
Alexandria.--The amazement of the Egyptians.--Caesar introduced with
The head of Pompey.--The seal of Pompey.--Caesar's situation.--His
applications.--Behavior of Pothinus.--Disputes--Policy of Pothinus.
--Arguments.--Caesar sends to Syria for additional troops.

To the duration when the unnatural dispute among the father of Cleopatra and
his/her sister was working his/her way toward his/her terrible termination, as
reported in the last chapter, her she was residing to the reality
building to Alexandria, a blooming and the beautiful girl of approximately fifteen.
Fortunately for her, she was too much youth to take some active part
personally in the argument. Still his/her two brothers were more youth that
her. Them all the three remained, therefore, in the royal buildings, quiet
spectators of the revolution, without or to be drawn profit or it hurt
from him. It is unusual that the name of both the boys it was Ptolemy.

The excitement in the city of Alexandria was intense and universal when
the Roman army the digitò to rehabilitate the father of Cleopatra on his
throne. A very great portion of the inhabitants is pleased with having him
the first king restored. In fact, it appears, from a retrospective look of the
king's history that when a hereditary and legitimate sovereign or dynasty
you/he/she is deposed and expelled by a rebellious population, any matter as
intolerable you/he/she is been able to be the tyranny, or as atrocious the crimes from
what the patience of the subject was exhausted the error of a very little,
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