Note 7 — CHAP. XVIII. The Gallery or The Fortune of Mankind.
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By a solemn treaty Ptolemy had Egypt, &c. Cassander had Macedonia and Greece. Lysimachus had Thrace, Bithynia, &c. Seleucus had Syria, &c. Of these, the kingdom of Egypt (under 14 monarchs including Cleopatra) and of Syria (under 27 kings) subsisted till subdued by the Romans. The rest soon fell to pieces.