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C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES of THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 103 (search)
Upon this intelligence Pompey laid aside his design of going into Syria, seized all the money he found in
the public bank, borrowed as much more as he could of his friends, sent
great quantities of brass on board for military uses; and having raised two
thousand soldiers, amongst the public officers, merchants, and his own
servants, sailed for Pelusium. Here, by accident, was king
Ptolemy, a minor, warring with a great army against his sister Cleopatra;
whom, some months before, by the assistance of his friends, he had expelled
the kingdom, and was then encamped not far distant from her. Pompey sent to
demand his protection, and a safe retreat in Alexandria, in consideration of the
friendship that had subsisted between him and his father. The messengers,
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES of THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 108 (search)
Pothinus the eunuch, governor to the young king, had the chief management of
affairs during his minority. This minister complained bitterly to his
friends, that the king should be summoned to plead his cause before Caesar:
afterwards finding among those that sided with the king, some who were
disposed to enter into his views, he privately sent for the army from Pelusium to Alexandria, and conferred the chief
command upon Achillas, the same we have spoken of before: inciting him by
letters and promises, both in the king's name and his own to execute such
orders as he should receive from him. Ptolemy, the father, by his will had
appointed the eldest of the two sons, and his elder daughter, joint heirs of
the kingdom. For the more certain accomplishment of his design, he