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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome

Note 55 — IV

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Ptolemy XII, who came to the throne of Egypt co-jointly with his sister Cleopatra in 51 b.c. He expelled Cleopatra in 49, and in 48 Cæsar reinstated her. In the war which ensued, he was defeated and drowned in the Nile.

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