Capitolo 81
the principal people of Alexandria and officers of state, and then
it revealed Ptolemy and Cleopatra, that it is probable that he decides their cause. The
original wish that had performed Ptolemy Auletes had been deposited in
the public file in Alexandria, and it preserved there attentively. A
authentic copy of him had been expeditious in Rome. Caesar provoked the original one
you/he/she will be revealed and you/he/she will be read to the reunion. His provisions
it was perfectly explicit and clear. It asked for that Cleopatras and
Ptolemy should marry himself/herself/themselves, and then it established the supreme power on
them jointly, as king and queen. It recognized the Roman republic as
the ally of Egypt, and it constituted the Roman government the performer of
the wish and the keeper of the king and queen. In fact, so clear and
explicit it was this document that his simple reading is seemed to be
of him a decision of the question. When, therefore, Caesar announced
what, in his/her judgment, Cleopatra was entitled for dividing the supreme power,
with Ptolemy, and that it was his/her duty as the representative of the
The Roman power and the performer of the wish, to protect the king and
the queen in theirs respective right, seemed there not to be anything that
you/he/she could be said against his/her decision.
Cleopatra and Ptolemy, were besides two other children of Ptolemy
Auletes in the royal family to this point. A was a girl called Arsinoe.
The other, a boy was, singly enough, he called, as his/her brother,
Ptolemy. These children were rather young, but Caesar thought that it
you perhaps gratify the Alexandrians, and conducts them to be acquiescent more
quickly in his/her decision, if him pits to make some reality provisions for
them. He proposed accordingly to assign the island in the Cyprus as a kingdom
for them. This was literally a gift, for the Cyprus a Roman was to this point
possession.
The whole reunion seemed satisfied with this decision except Pothinus.
You/he/she had been determined him so and inveterate an enemy to Cleopatra that, as