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$Title{Table 1: Chronological Abridgment Of The History Of The Kings Of Egypt And Syria.}

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A.M.           Kings of Egypt.                       Kings of Syria
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3824  |    Ptolemy Philometer reigned    |
      | something more than 34 years.    |
      | This article contains only 14    |
      | years of his reign.              |
      |    Differences between           |
      | Philometer and his brother       |
      | Evergetes, or Physcon.           |
3840  |                                  |   Antiochus Eupator, aged nine years, succeeds his father
      |                                  | Antiochus Epiphanes.  He reigns only two years.
3842  |                                  |   Demetrius Soter, son of Seleucus Philopator, having
      |                                  | escaped from Rome, ascends the throne.
3851  |                                  |   Bala, under the name of Alexander, pretending to be
      |                                  | the son of Antiochus Epiphanes, seizes the throne of Syria.
      |                                  | He is supported by the Romans.
      |                                  |   Demetrius is killed in a battle. He had reigned
      |                                  | twelve years.
      |                                  |   Alexander Bala. He reigns almost five years.
      |                                  | Ptolemy Philometer declares against him in favor of
      |                                  | Demetrius Nicator, son of Demetrius Soter.
      |                                  |   Demetrius Nicator.
3860  |  Ptolemy Evergetes, otherwise    |                                  |   Antiochus Theos, son of Bala,
      | called Physcon, brother of       |                                  | supported by Tryphon, seizes part
      | Philometer, ascends the throne,  |                                  | of the kingdom.
      | and marries, Cleopatra,          |                                  |   Diodotes Tryphon, after having
      | Philometer's wife.               |                                  | got rid of his pupil Antiochus,
      |                                  |                                  | ascends the throne.
3863  |                                  |   Demetrius marches against the  |
      |                                  | Parthians, who take him prisoner |
      |                                  | and confine him.  He had reigned |
      |                                  | seven years.                     |
3864  |                                  |                                  |   Antiochus Sidetes, brother of
      |                                  |                                  | Demetrius, after having overthrown
      |                                  |                                  | Tryphon, and put him to death, is
      |                                  |                                  | declared king.  Cleopatra, wife of
      |                                  |                                  | Demetrius, marries him.
      |                                  |                                  |    Antiochus Sidetes marches against
      |                                  |                                  | the Parthians.
3874  |   Physcon expels Cleopatra his   |   Demetrius Nicator reigns again |   The Parthians send back Demetrius
      | wife, and marries his daughter   | in Syria.                        | into Syria.  Antiochus is slain.
      | named also Cleopatra.            |                                  |
      |   He is reduced to fly. The      |                                  |
      | Alexandrians restore the         |                                  |
      | government to Cleopatra, his     |                                  |
      | first wife.                      |                                  |
      |   Physcon reascends the throne.  |                                  |
3877  |                                  |   Demetrius is killed by Zebina. |   Alexander Zebina, supported
      |                                  |   Cleopatra, wife of Demetrius,  | by Physcon, expels Demetrius
      |                                  | retains part of the kingdom after| from the throne, who is killed
      |                                  | his death.                       | soon after.
3880  |                                  |   Seleucus V. eldest son of      |
      |                                  | Demetrius,is declared king, and  |
      |                                  | soon after killed by Cleopatra.  |
3881  |                                  |   Antiochus Grypus, his younger  |
      |                                  | brother, is placed on the throne |
      |                                  | by Cleopatra.                    |
3882  |                                  |                                  |   Zebina is overthrown by
      |                                  |                                  | Grypus, and dies soon after.
3884  |                                  |   Cleopatra designs to poison    |
      |                                  | Grypus, and is poisoned herself. |
3887  |   Death of Physcon.  He had      |                                  |
      | reigned 29 years.                |                                  |
      |   Ptolemy Lathyrus, or Soter,    |                                  |
      | succeeds Physcon.                |                                  |
      |   Cleopatra, his mother, obliges |                                  |
      | him to repudate Cleopatra,       |                                  |
      | his elder sister and marry       |                                  |
      | Selena, his youngest sister.     |                                  |
      |   Cleopatra gives the kingdom of |                                  |
      | Cyprus to Alexander her          |                                  |
      | youngest son.                    |                                  |
3890  |                                  |                                  |   Antiochus the Cyzicenian son
      |                                  |                                  | of Cleopatra and Antiochus Sidetes,
      |                                  |                                  | take arms against Grypus.
3891  |                                  |                                  |   Cleopatra, whom Lathyrus had been
      |                                  |                                  | obliged to repudiate, marries the Cyzicenian.
      |                                  |                                  | She is killed by the order of Tryphena,
      |                                  |                                  | wife of Grypus.
3892  |                                  |                                  |   The Cyzicenian gains a victory
      |                                  |                                  | over Grypus, and drives him out of Syria.
3893  |                                  |   Grypus is reconciled with his  |   The two brothers are reconciled,
      |                                  | brother the Cyzicenian.          | and divide the empire of Syria.
      |                                  |                                  |
3897  |   Cleopatra he expel Lathyrus    |                                  |
      | from Egypt: He had reigned 10    |                                  |
      | years.  She sets his younger     |                                  |
      | brother, Alexander, upon the     |                                  |
      | throne                           |                                  |
3903  |   She gives her daughter Selena, |                                  |   Cleopatra gives her daughter
      | whom she had taken from Lathyrus,|                                  | Selena to Antiochus Grypus.
      | in marriage to Antiochus Grypus. |                                  |
3907  |                                  |      Death of Grypus.  He had reign twenty-seven years.
      |                                  |    Seleucus, his son, succeeds him.
3910  |                                  |                                  |   Antiochus, the Cyzicenian,
      |                                  |                                  | is overthrown, and put to death.
3911  |                                  |   Seleucus is overthrown by      |   Antiochus Eusebes, son of
      |                                  | Eusebes, and burnt in Mopsuestia.| the Cyzicenian, causes himself
      |                                  |                                  | to be declared king.
      |                                  |                                  |   Eusebes marries Selena, widow
3912  |                                  |   Antiochus XI. brother of       | of Grypus.
      |                                  | Seleucus, and second son of      |
      |                                  | Grypus, assumes the diadem, and  |
      |                                  | is killed by Eusebes.            |
      |                                  |                                  |
3913  |                                  |   Philip, his brother, third     |
      |                                  | son Grypus, succeeds him.        |
3914  |                                  |   Demetrius Euchares, fourth     |
      |                                  | son of Grypus, is established    |
      |                                  | upon the throne at Damascus,     |
      |                                  | by the assistance of Lathyrus.   |
3915  |   Alexander kills his mother     |                                  |
      | Cleopatra.                       |                                  |
3916  |   Alexander is expelled himself. |                                  |   Eusebes, overthrown by Philip
      | He had reigned 19 years.  He     |                                  | and Demetrius, takes refuge among
      | died soon after.  Lathyrus       |                                  | the Parthians.
      | is recalled.                     |                                  |
3918  |                                  |   Demetrius, having been taken   |   He is re-establish upon the
      |                                  | by the Parthians, Antiochus      | throne by their means.
      |                                  | Dionysius, fifth son of Grypus,  |
      |                                  | is placed upon the throne of     |
      |                                  | Damascus, and is killed the      |
      |                                  | following year.                  |
3921  |                                  |   The Syrians, weary of so many  |
      |                                  | divisions and revolutions, elect |
      |                                  | Tigranes king of Armenia.  He    |
      |                                  | reigns by a viceroy fourteen     |
      |                                  | years.                           |
3923  |   Death of Lathyrus.  Alexander  |                                  |   Eusebes takes refuge in Cilicia,
      | II. son of Alexander I. under    |                                  | where he remains concealed.
      | Sylla's protection, is chosen    |                                  |   Selena, his wife, retains part
      | king.  He marries Cleopatra,     |                                  | of Phoenicia and Coelosyria, and
      | otherwise called Berenice, and   |                                  | gives her two sons a good education.
      | kills her 19 days after.  He     |                                  |   Syria being unprovided with troops,
      | reigned fifteen years.           |                                  | Antiochus Asiaticus, son of
      |                                  |                                  | Antiochus Eusebes, takes possession
      |                                  |                                  | of some part of the country, and reigns
      |                                  |                                  | there during four years.
3935  |                                  |  Tigranes recalls Megadates his  |   Pompey deprives Antiochus Asiaticus
      |                                  | viceroy from Syria, who commanded| of his dominions, and reduces Syria
      |                                  | there fourteen years in his name.| into a province of the Roman empire.
3939  |   The Alexandrians expel         |                                  | The house of the Seleucides is extinct
      | Alexander.                       |                                  | with him.
      |   Ptolemy Auletes, bastard son of|                                  |
      | Lathyrus is placed upon the      |                                  |
      | throne.                          |                                  |