[1131] Cicero, Letters to Atticus, II. 1.—Suetonius, Cæsar, 20.
[1132] Suetonius, Cæsar, 20.—Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 7.—Appian, II. 13.
[1133] Suetonius, Cæsar, 20.
[1134] Cicero, Second Oration on the Agrarian Law, 16.—Scholiast of Bobbio on Cicero’s Oration In Rege Alexandrino, p. 350, edit. Orelli. This Ptolemy Alexas, or Alexander, appears to have been a natural son of Alexander I., younger brother of Ptolemy Lathyrus, who is also called Ptolemy Soter II.; in this case he would be, though illegitimate, cousin of Ptolemy Auletes. He had succeeded Alexander II., legitimate son of Alexander I., who married his step-mother, Berenice, only legitimate daughter of Ptolemy Soter II.
[1135] Cicero, Letters to Atticus, II. 16.—The King of Egypt gave nearly 6,000 talents (35 millions of francs) to Cæsar and Pompey. (Suetonius, Cæsar, 14.)
[1136] Suetonius, Cæsar, 54.—Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 12.—Cæsar’s expressions (War of Alexandria, 33, and Civil Wars, III. 107) show the friendship of Ptolemy Auletes for the Romans.
[1137] Cæsar, War in Gaul, I. 35.—Plutarch, Cæsar, 35.—Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 34.
[1138] Suetonius, Cæsar, 20.
[1139] Plutarch, Cato, 38.—“It was about the sixth hour, when, in the course of my speech in court for C. Antonius, my colleague, I deplored certain abuses which prevailed in the State, and which seemed to me to be closely allied to the case of my unfortunate client. Some ill-disposed persons reported my words to certain men of high position in different terms to those I had used; and on the same day, at the ninth hour, the adoption of Clodius was carried.” (Cicero, Oration for his House, 16.)
[1140] Appian, Civil Wars, II. 14.—Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 12.—Plutarch, Pompey, 50.—Cicero, 39.