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him in the city. These two events, the murder of one of the
great Roman generals on the oriental extremity of the coast and the
arrival of the other, to the same moment, to Alexandria, on the westerner,
you burst together suddenly on Egypt as simultaneous applauses of thunder.
The news struck the whole country with amazement, and immediately
universal and absorbed attention. To the fields both of Cleopatra and
Ptolemy, to Pelusium all were excitement and they wonder. Instead of thinking
of a battle, both the parties were busy completely in to speculate on the
resulted that were probable to accumulate, to a side or to the other, under
the totally new and unexpected aspect that you/they had supposed public business.
Clearly the thoughts of all were direct toward Alexandria. Pothinus
it immediately proceeded to the city, while taking with him the young king.
Also, Achillas one accompanied them, or it followed later soon. Them
brought them the head of Pompey on which they had stopped the
beach where you/they had killed him to them, and also a seal from which they took
his/her finger. When they arrived to Alexandria, they sent the head, it wound
above in a cloth, and also the seal, as you introduce to Caesar. Accustomed as
they was to the brutal actions and the cruel cruelties of the Ptolemies,
theirs supposed that Caesar would have exulted to the show of the dissevered
and horrible head of his great competitor and enemy. Instead of this, he was,
shocked and it was sorry to, and it ordered the head to be buried more anymore with the
funeral and solemn and imposing ceremonies. However, he accepted and it held
the seal. The equipment engraved on him was a lion that holds a sword in his
hand--an appropriate emblem of the characters of the men that, although in many
respects magnanimous and only you/he/she had filled the whole world with the,
terror of their disputes.
The army of Ptolemy, while him his/her immediate advisers and he went
to Alexandria, you/he/she had gone away to Pelusium under the command of other,
official, to look at Cleopatra. Same Cleopatra would have been pleased,