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years are enough to produce a promptness a lot of general to ordinarily
you accept without protesting a restoration; and in this particular example there had
such state any superiority in the government of Berenice, during the
period while its power continued, on that of his/her father that she had
moved, as to manufacture an exception this case to the general rule. The
the people's mass, therefore--all those, especially that you/he/she had taken anybody
active part in the government of Berenice--it was ready to give again the welcome one Ptolemy
to his/her capital. Those that you/they had taken such part were briefly entirely
performed by the orders of Ptolemy.
There was, clearly, a great excitement in the whole city on the
arrival of the Roman army. The whole foreign influence and the power that had
is practiced so far in Egypt, and almost all the officers, if
civil or military, you/he/she had been Greek. The arrival of the Romans was the
introduction of a new element of interest to add to the variety without end
of excitements that animated the capital.
The restoration of Ptolemy was celebrated with games, shows and
festivity of some kind, and, clearly, next to the king himself, the
I center principal of interest and the attraction in all these public joyfulness
it would be the foreign generalses and distinguished from which the instrumentality the
end had been earned.
Mark Antony was a special object of respect public and the admiration to the
time. His/her eccentric manners, his/her frank and honest air, his/her Roman
the simplicity of suit and gait, did him/it evident; and his
interposition to save the lives of the garrison captured of Pelusium,
and the interest that him taken in to make such distinguished funeral
you honor to the enemy that his/her army had killed in battle, you/he/she thrilled the
people with the idea on a certain nobility and the magnanimity in his
character that, despite his/her guilts, an object of general manufactured him
admiration and applause. The a lot of guilts of such thick man suppose, in