. d by Antigonus. (Diod. xviii. 23,xx. 37.)—4. Daughter of Antiochus III. theGreat, married Ptolemy V. Epiphanes, 193.— 5. Daughter of Ptolemy V. Epiphanes andNo. 4, married her brother Ptolemy VI. Philo-metor, and on his death, 140, her other brotherPtolemy VI. Physcon. She was soon afterwardsdivorced by Physcon, and fled into Syria.— 6. Daughter of Ptolemy VI. Philometor and ofNo. 5, married first Alexander Balas (150), theSyrian usurper, and on his death DemetriusNicator. During the captivity of the latter inParthia, jealous of th
. d by Antigonus. (Diod. xviii. 23,xx. 37.)—4. Daughter of Antiochus III. theGreat, married Ptolemy V. Epiphanes, 193.— 5. Daughter of Ptolemy V. Epiphanes andNo. 4, married her brother Ptolemy VI. Philo-metor, and on his death, 140, her other brotherPtolemy VI. Physcon. She was soon afterwardsdivorced by Physcon, and fled into Syria.— 6. Daughter of Ptolemy VI. Philometor and ofNo. 5, married first Alexander Balas (150), theSyrian usurper, and on his death DemetriusNicator. During the captivity of the latter inParthia, jealous of the connexion which hethere formed with Rhodogune, the Parthianprincess, she married Antiochus VII. Sidetes,his brother, and also murdered Demetrius onhis return. She likewise murdered Seleucus,her son by Nicator, who on his fathers deathassumed the government without her other son by Nicator, Antiochus , succeeded to the throne (125) throughher influence; and he compelled her to drinkthe poison which she had prepared for him Cl.^opntrti (No. head* of Cleopittnt uud her Hon AntlochuH VIII Qry-pun: eagle--legend ANTIUXOY UASIAI12HIK A EOfl AT PAZ. [ANTIOCHTJB VJLLL.] She had a son by Sidetes,Antiochus IX., surnamcd Cyzicenus. (Just,xxxix. 1 ; Appian, Si/r. 09.) — 7. Anotherdaughter of Ptolemy VI. Philometor and , married her uncle Physcon, when he di-vorced her mother. On the death of Physconshe reigned in conjunction with her elder son,Ptolemy VIII. Lathyrus, and then in conjunc-tion with her younger son, Alexander. She was 240 CLEOPATRA put to death by the latter in 89.—8. Daughterof Ptolemy Physeon and No. 7, married firsther brother Ptolemy VIII. Lathyrus, and nextAntioehus IX. Cyzicenus. She was put to deathby Tryphaena, her own sister, wife of AntioehusGrypus.—9. Usually called Selene, anotherdaughter of Ptolemy Physeon, married first herbrother Lathyrus (on her sister No. 8 beingdivorced), secondly Antioeh
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