Capitolo 74
Ptolemy.
Of bad duration, while the events reported in the last chapter it was
place that he/she takes to Alexandria, Cleopatra was anxious and uncomfortable in her
camp, rather uncertain, for once, what was best for her to do. You
desired to be to Alexandria. You knew very well the power of that Caesar in
controlling necessarily the course of business in Egypt would be supreme.
You were, clearly, very serious in his/her desire to be able to introduce her/it
you cause in front of him. As it was, Ptolemy and Pothinus were in communication
with the arbiter, and, for aught she knew, while assiduously cultivating his
favors, while she went far street, his/her cause not hearing, his/her evil unknown,
and perhaps also his/her forgotten existence. Clearly, under this way
circumstances, she was very serious to arrive to Alexandria.
But as to bring defeasible this purpose was a source of the great perplexity. You
you/he/she could not march there to the head of an army for the army of the king,
it was strongly intrenched to Pelusium, and indeed it blocked the way. You
you/he/she could not try to pass alone, or with the few companions, through the
country, for every city and village it was busy with garrisons and
official under the orders of Pothinus and her certainly it would be
intercepted. You didn't have fleet, and it were not able, therefore, face the
passage of sea. Besides, even if she was able from some course of means the gates
of Alexandria, as it was her to pass in safe through the roads of the
city in the building where Caesar resided, since the city, except in
Were the quarters of Caesar, completely in the hands of the government of Pothinus? The
the difficulties in the defeasible way of bringing his/her object they so almost seemed
insurmountable.
However, she was resolved for making the attempt. You sent a communication to
Caesar, asking to permission to appear in front of him and to beg his/her his/her own cause.
Caesar answered, while exhorting her/it from all the means to come. You taken an only boat,
and with the possible smallest number of companions, it made his/her long way