Capitolo 88
instructions.--Ganymede cuts the road the provisioning of Caesar of water.--Panic of the
soldiers.--Caesar's sources.--Arrival of the transports.--The transports in
anguish.--The gravity of the coast.--A fight.--Succeeded Caesar.
--Ganymede equips a fleet.--A naval conflict.--Caesar in danger.
--Another victory.--The Egyptians discouraged.--Secret messengers.
--Dissimulation of Ptolemy--Arrival of Mithradates.--Defeats of Ptolemy.
--Terror and confusion.--Death of Ptolemy.--Regina of Cleopatra.--General
disapproval of the course of Caesar.--His/her child Caesarion of Cleopatra.--Public
opinion of his/her behavior.--Caesar departs for Rome.--He takes Arsinoe with
him.
The war that achieved as the result of the intrigues and manoeuvres
described in the last chapter it is known in the history in Rome and Julius
Caesar as the war of Alexandrine. The events during which the happened
progress of him and his/her termination finally in the triumph of Caesar and
Cleopatra, will form the subject of this chapter.
Achillas greatly had the advantage on Caesar to the beginning of the
contexts, in in comparison to the strengths' strength under his/her command.
Caesar, in fact, only had with him a separation of three or four thousand
men, a small body of troops that he had I handed with hurry axle a small
squadron of the helmets of Rhodian to undertake Pompey through the
Mediterranean. When him taken the breadth from the European beaches with this
inconsiderable fleet, is probable that he didn't also have anticipation of
disembarking in Egypt to everybody, and a lot of less than being they involved in great
undertaken military there. Achillas, on the other hand it was to the
head of a strength of twenty-thousand real men. Its troops were, it is
true, of a rather miscellaneous character, but they was every veteran
soldiers, addicted to the climate of Egypt and specialized in all the ways
of war that had been all right to the character of the country. Some of
they was Roman soldiers men that had come with the army of Mark Antony,
from Syria when Ptolemy Auletes, the father of Cleopatra was rehabilitated on