The History of Egypt Under the Ptolemies |
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afterwards Agathocles Alex Alexander Alexander's Alexandria ambassadors Antigonus Antiochus Antony Arabs Arrian Arridæus Arsinoë Asia Minor Athenæus Auletes battle Berenice brother Cæsar called Cleomenes Cleopatra coast coins Colo-Syria conquered conqueror conquests crowd Cyprus Cyrene Darius daughter Delta Demetrius Diod Epiphanes Ethiopia Euergetes father fleet forces friends gained gave gold Greece Greek guard harbour held hieroglyphics honour hundred inscription island Jews Josephus Justinus king of Egypt king's kingdom known Lagus Lathyrus long gallies Lower Egypt Lysimachus Macedonian Manetho marched Memphis mercenaries Museum Nile orders Osiris Pausanias Pelusium Perdiccas perhaps Persians Petra Phenicia Philadelphus Philometor Philopator Pliny Plutarch Polybius Porphyrius priests provinces Ptolemy Alexander Ptolemy Soter put to death queen rank Red Sea reign Roman Rome Scalig Seleucus senate sent soldiers soon Suidas Syria temple Thebes thought thousand throne took trade troops Upper Egypt wealth whole young