Capitolo 68
of business in new and unexpected channels. The breakup out of the
civil war among the great generals Roman Caesar and Pompey and them
respective partisans, has been mentioned already as being happened soon
after the death of the father of Cleopatra, and as having prevented Pompey
to undertake the office of performer of the wish. This war had been
getting mad since then that duration with terrible fury. His thundering distant
you/he/she had also been felt in Egypt, but it was too much remote to wake up there some
special alarm. The immense armies of these two mighty conquerors had
him slowly moved--it likes two fierce birds of prey, while flying through the air,
and fighting as them badminton--through Italy in Greece, and from Greece,
through Macedon, in Thessaly contending in terrible struggles with
each other as them advanced, and stamping on down and destroying each
thing in their way. Against a great ending it battles you/he/she had been fought for a long time to
Pharsalia. Pompey had totally been defeated. He was run away the
sea-beach, and there, with some ships and a small number of followers,
he had pushed out on the Mediterranean, not intelligent where to fly,
and submerged with wretchedness and the desperation. Caesar followed him/it in
anxious search. He had a small fleet of helmets with him, on axle of
what he had embarked two or three thousand men. This was a strength
appropriate, perhaps, for the search of a fugitive, but completely
insufficient for some other sketch.
Pompey thought about Ptolemy. He remembered the efforts that him him
you/he/she had constituted the cause of Ptolemy Auletes, to Rome and the success of
those efforts in to assure the restoration of that monarch--an event through
what alone the young Ptolemy had been trained for reaching the crown. Him
come, therefore to Pelusium, and, anchoring away his/her small fleet the
sustains, it sent to the earth to ask to Ptolemy to receive and to protect him/it.
Pothinus that was really the commander the army of Ptolemy answer sort to
this question that Pompey should be received and you/he/she should be protected, and that