Millions upon millions would not have seemed to him too large a price for this object.

Pompey would rather have gone to Egypt himself, but the jealousy of the others would not permit it.

Gabinius, the Governor of Syria, received the commission.
"But the occupants of the Egyptian throne were not disposed to resign it without a struggle.

You know that meanwhile Queen Berenike, Cleopatra's sister, had been twice married.

She had her miserable first husband strangled--a more manly spouse had been chosen by the Alexandrians for her second consort.