person
Ptolemy XII Auletes
Ptolemy
also: the king of Egypt
King of Egypt c. 80–58 and 55–51 BC; expelled in 58, restored by A. Gabinius's Roman force in 55. The Egyptian-restoration debate runs through the Spinther correspondence of 56.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 1.5a §2 the royal cause
Causa regia: the question of restoring Ptolemy XII Auletes, the exiled king of Egypt, to his throne --- the commission Lentulus Spinther, as governor of Cilicia, hoped to receive. It dominates the whole Lentulus correspondence of 56 BC.
- Ad Familiares 1.5b §2 that the king, when he understands
Ptolemy XII Auletes, the exiled king of Egypt then resident at Rome, whose restoration is the whole subject of the correspondence. Cicero's hope is that he will give up on Pompey and turn to Lentulus.
- Ad Familiares 1.7 §4 Ptolemy may return to his kingdom
Ptolemy XII Auletes, exiled king of Egypt; the plan Cicero relays (from Pompey) is for Lentulus to install him at Ptolemais, take Alexandria by force, then restore him --- thus formally honouring the Senate's first decree.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.2 §3 About the Alexandrian king a senatus consultum has been passed
Ptolemy XII Auletes, the exiled king of Egypt, whose restoration was the great political prize of 56 BC. The Senate ruled it dangerous to restore him 'with a multitude' (an army), leaving open who --- Lentulus Spinther or Pompey --- should do it.
- For Gaius Rabirius Postumus §4 Ptolemy, driven from his kingdom
Ptolemy XII Auletes, king of Egypt, was expelled by an Alexandrian uprising in 58 BC and came to Rome to lobby for restoration. Postumus financed his bid, lending vast sums against the promise of repayment once he regained the throne.