ABSTRACT
The death of Ptolemy and the submission of Alexandria brought the war to a definite close; and Ceasar, once more in comfortable residence at the Palace, was enabled at last to carry out his plans for the regulation of Egyptian affairs, with the execution of which the campaign had so long interfered. The approaching birth of the child had made it necessary for Cleopatra to disclose her relationship with Ceasar, and at the same time to prove to her subjects that she, their Queen, was not merely the mistress of an adventurous Roman. A mythological fiction of a similar nature had been employed in ancient Egypt in reference to the births of earlier sovereigns, those of Hatshepsut and of Amenophis being two particular instances. In the later years of the Queen's reign events were dated as from this supernatural occurrence, and there is preserved to us an epitaph inscribed in the 'twentieth year of the union of Cleopatra with Amon'.
