His attitude expressed so much arrogance and puerile, defiant, unruly audacity, that Cleopatra found it difficult to suppress an exclamation of disgust before she spoke.
"We are indeed brethren," she said, "and so, for the sake of the peace which has been restored and preserved with so much difficulty, we give in.

The best way will be to request Asclepiodorus--" But here Euergetes interrupted the queen, clapping his hands loudly and laughing: "That is right, sister! only find me my Hebe! How you do it is your affair, and is all the same to me.

To-morrow evening we will have a rehearsal, and the day after we will give a representation of which our grandchildren shall repeat the fame.

Nor shall a brilliant audience be lacking, for my complimentary visitors with their priestly splendor and array of arms will, it is to be hoped, arrive punctually.

Come, my lords, we will go, and see what there is good to drink or to listen to at the table in the next room." The doors were opened; music, loud talking, the jingle of cups, and the noise of laughter sounded through them into the room where the princes had been supping, and all the king's guests followed Euergetes, with the exception of Eulaeus.