But out of a branch of her root shall one stand up in his estate, or
rather, as it is translated *in the Vulgar Latin, out of a branch of
her root shall stand up a plant; and he shall. come with an army, and
shall enter into the fortress, or the fenced cities of the king of the
north, and shall deal, shall act against them, and shall prevail: And
shall also carry captives into Egypt, their gods with their princes, or
rather * their gods with their molten images, and with their precious
vessels of silver and of gold, and he shall continue more years than the
king of the north, or more literally, he shall continue some years after
the king of the north. So the king of the south shall come into his
kingdom, and shall return into his own land, (ver. 7—9.) This
branch, which sprung out of the same root with Berenice, was
Ptolemy Euergetes, her brother, who no sooner succeeded his father,
Ptolemy Philadelphus, in the kingdom, than * he came with a great
army, and entered into the provinces of the king of the north, that is,
of Seleucus Callinicus, who with his mother Laodice, reigned in
Syria: and he acted against them, and prevailed so far, that he took
Syria and Cilicia, and the upper parts beyond Euphrates, and almost
all Asia. And when he had heard that a sedition was raised in
Egypt, he plundered the kingdom of Seleucus, and took forty thou-
sand talents of silver, and precious vessels, and images of the gods, two
thousand and five hundred: among which were also those which
Cambyses, after he had taken Egypt, had carried into Persia. And


1 Καὶ ὁ τῆς Αἰγύπτου δὲ βασιλεὺς δεύτερος, ὁ Φιλάδελφος ἐπίκλην, ἐκδοὺς τὴν αὐ-
τοῦ θυγάτερα Βερενίκην ᾿Αντιόχῳ τῷ Συρίας βασιλεῖ, ἐν ἐπιμελείᾳ εἶχε πέμπειν αὐτῇ
τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ Νείλου ὕδωρ, ἵνα μόνου τούτου τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἡ παῖς πίνῃ, ὡς ἱστορεῖ To-
λύβιος. Ptolemzus secundus Ζργρίϊ rex, cognomine Philadelphus, cum filiam Berenicen
Antiocho regi Syrie nuptum dedisset, mittendam ad ipsam Nili aquam sedulo curavit, ut
eam solam gnata biberet, quod Polybius scripsit. 