Capitolo 92
it would be sure that he would take possession of them as soon as him
you/he/she should earn admission to those parts of the city that it had Caesar
abandoned. This was extremely important to prevent; for, if Achillas
kept this fleet, especially if he kept on commanding the island of
Pharos, he would be perfect master of all the approaches to the city on
the side of the sea. He could not only receive then king-strengthening and
provisionings him from that quarter, but he could also cut indeed
by the Roman army from every possibility to receive some. It became,
therefore, as he/she thought Caesar, imperiously necessary that he owes
protect from this danger. This he did sending a
the consignment to burn the whole consignment in the I bring, and, to the same
time, to take possession of a certain strong on the island of Pharos
what it commanded the entry to the I bring. This enterprise was
abundantly succeeded. The troops burned the consignment, taken the strong one,
expelled the Egyptian soldiers by him, and it put a Roman garrison in him
instead, and then he/she returned in safety inside the lines of Caesar. Cleopatra
testified to these enterprises by his/her windows of building with feelings of the
the tallest admiration for the energy and value that his/her Roman protectors
statement.
Which burns some Egyptian ships in this action, however fortunate for
Cleopatra and Caesar, were frequented with a catastrophe that it ever has
since then is complained by the civilized world and whole. Some of which burns
ships were driven from the wind to the beach, where they put fire to the
buildings that were adjoining to the water. The flames scattered and
produced a wide conflagration, during that the greatest
part of the great library was destroyed. This library was the only one
picked up general of the ancient writings that had been done never, and
his loss was never sheltered.
The destruction of the Egyptian fleet also resulted in the fall and
downfall of Achillas. From the duration of the arrival of Arsinoe in the field there