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Embassy from Rome to Ptolemy

The Romans sent ambassadors to Ptolemy, wishing
M. Atilius and Manius Glabrio sent to Alexandria with presents to Ptolemy Philopator and Queen Cleopatra. Livy, 27, 4, B. C. 210.
to be supplied with corn, as they were suffering from a great scarcity of it at home; and, moreover, when all Italy had been laid waste by the enemy's troops up to the gates of Rome, and when all supplies from abroad were stopped by the fact that war was raging, and armies encamped, in all parts of the world except in Egypt. In fact the scarcity at Rome had come to such a pitch, that a Sicilian medimnus was sold for fifteen drachmae.1 But in spite of this distress the Romans did not relax in their attention to the war.

1 That is, 10s. 3 3/4d. for about a bushel and a half. See on 2, 15.

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