Ptolemy

And indeed this is so copiously argued by Hegesias the Cyrenaic that he is said to have been forbidden by King Ptolemy to say those things in the schools, because many, on hearing him, made away with themselves.

to whom, when, roaming through Egypt, his companions not having followed, common bread was given in a hut, nothing seemed more pleasant than that bread.

We have an instance of the second kind, where the objection is made to the person sent on an embassy, in the case of Theodore, who was called the atheist, and whom Lysimachus refused to receive in the character of an ambassador sent from Ptolemy, and the same thing has frequently happened to others, against whom peculiar motives of aversion have existed.

After the defeat of king Ptolemy, Demetrius gave part of the spoils to the Athenians.

In the same manner,Antiochus the Great maintained that Coelo-Syria belonged to Seleucus, and not to Ptolemy, because Seleucus had been the principal in the war, to which Ptolemy had contributed his assistance.

Acclaim to the household of Ptolemy, "Pheu!

This is to paint a mule from an ass, and to delineate Ptolemy from Valentinus.

Ptolemy well remembered the puerile sayings, that apples are born in the sea and fishes in a tree;

A leader of this state, Demetrius of Phalerum, when he had been driven from his country by injustice, betook himself to king Ptolemy at Alexandria.

Apion the grammarian, then, surnamed Pleistonices, in the fourth book of his Egyptian Histories — though he was hostile in disposition toward the Hebrews, being an Egyptian by race, so that he even composed a book against the Jews — mentioning Amosis, king of the Egyptians, and the deeds done in his time, cites as witness Ptolemy of Mendes.

Ab Arabico autem sinu ad Indiam, Indicique Oceani insulas, et auream usque Chersonesum, quam esse Iapanem credunt plerique, etiam re Romana florente navigari solitum, iter a Plinio descriptum, legationes ab Indis ad Augustum, ad Claudium etiam ex Taprobane insula, deinde gesta Traiani et tabulae Ptolemaei satis ostendunt.

We have seen Ptolemy, king of Africa, and Mithridates of Armenia among the guards of Gaius;

Ptolemy, thirty-seven years.

their followers too, Ptolemy of Mendes and Menander of Ephesus and Demetrius of Phalerum and King Juba and Apion and Thallus, and whoever either approves or convicts these;