Ptolemy (Cyprus)

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Ptolemy was from 80 to 58 BC BC King of Cyprus .

He was a younger son of Ptolemy IX. Soter of Egypt and with it Cleopatra's uncle. After he had spoiled himself with Publius Clodius Pulcher during the pirate war, the latter did everything in his power to take revenge on him. According to Strabo (Geographika 14, 6, 6), Clodius had fallen into the hands of Cilician pirates , who were then at the height of their power. Through Ptolemy he asked in a letter to release it. The king complied with the request, but the ransom he sent was so small that the pirates rejected it. Eventually they released Clodius with no ransom. He thought about revenge and, after he had become tribune , sent Cato to Cyprus to depose Ptolemy. He was rated eight and poisoned himself.

The historian Ammianus Marcellinus expresses the suspicion that the Romans were mainly interested in his treasures with which they wanted to fill the empty treasury. After the island between 58 and 56 BC. When the quaestor Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95–46 BC) dragged these treasures to Rome like spoils of war , they were made into a Praetorian province . It is said to have been items worth 7,000 talents .

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SURNAME Ptolemy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Cyprus
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC Chr.