Capitolo 66
the true accession to the throne was not brought defeasible yet. There was still
a lot of difficulties and dangers to be passed through, in front of the period
it arrived when she really became a sovereign. You didn't do, her, face
some immediate attempt to hasten this period, but it seems to have
is acquiescent, on the other hand very quietly, for once, in the
setups that his/her father had done.
Pothinus was an eunuch. He had been, for a lot of time, an officer of
I govern under Ptolemy his/her father. He was a proud, ambitious, and
dominant man, determined to dominate and very deprived of scruples in in comparison to
the means that he adopted to bring defeasible his/her ends. He had been
gotten used to consider Cleopatra a mere child. Now that she was queen,
he was very not prepared that the true one to be able should pass in his/her hands.
The jealousy and the sick wish that he felt verse her they quickly increased as
he founded, during the first two or three years later her
the death of father that she was quickly advancing in strength of character,
and in the influence and predominance that she was acquiring on everybody
around her. His/her beauty, his/her completions and a certain indescribable
bandages that pervaded all of its gait, combined to give her/it great
to be able personal. But, while these things wakened up in other he/she minds the feelings
of interest in Cleopatra and the affection to her, they only increased, the
the jealousy and the envy of Pothinus. Cleopatra was becoming his/her competitor. Him
looked for to oppose and to swindle her/it. He acted verse her in a
haughty and haughty way to hold down his to that that him
considered his/her correct place as his/her custody; for him it was still the keeper
both of Cleopatra and his/her husband and the regent of the kingdom.
Cleopatra had a lot what has sometimes called ghost, and her
resentment woke up by this treatment. Took Pothinus the pains to enlist
his/her young husband, Ptolemy, on his/her side as it advanced the dispute.
Ptolemy was more youth, and of a character very less marked and definite