us, _Civil Wars_, ii. 90.)

As to the seal ring see the Life of Pompeius, c. 80, and Dion Cassias
(42. c. 18).]

[Footnote 548: The Alexandrine war, which is confusedly told here, is
recorded in a single book entitled De Bello Alexandrino and in Dion
Cassius (42. c. 34-44). The origin of it is told by Caesar at the end
of the third Book of the Civil War. The history of the Alexandrine war
by Appianus was in his AEgyptiaca, which is lost. Dion Cassius, a lover
of scandal, mentions that Caesar's attachment to Kleopatra was the
cause of the Alexandrine war (42. c. 44). But it could not be the sole
cause. Caesar landed with the insignia of his office, as if he were
entering a Roman province, and it might be reasonably suspected by the
Egyptians that he had a design on the country. Instead of thanking
them for ridding him of his rival, he fixed himself and his soldiers
in one of the quarters of Alexandria. Caesar went to get money (Dion,
42. c. 9). Kleopatra kept him there longer than he at first intended
to stay.]

[Footnote 549: Ptolemaeus Auletes through Caesar's influence had been
declared a friend and ally of the Romans in Caesar's consulship B.C.
59. (Cic. _Ad Attic._ ii. 16.) Ptolemaeus had to spend money for this:
he both gave and promised. It does not appear that this money was
promised to Caesar: it is more probable that it was promised to the
Roman State and Caesar came to get it.]

[Footnote 550: The story of Kleopatra coming to Caesar is also told by
Dion Cassius (42. c. 34). Caesar mentions his putting Pothinus to death
(_Civil War_, iii. 112). Caesar had at first only 3200 foot soldiers
and 800 cavalry to oppose to the 20,000 men of Achillas, who were not
bad soldiers. Besides these 20,000 men Achillas had a great number of
vagabonds collected from all parts of Cilicia and Syria.]

[Footnote 551: Alexandria had no springs, and it was supplied from the
Nile, the water of which was received into cisterns under the houses.
This supply was (_Bell. Alex._ 5, &c.) damaged by Ganymedes the
Egyptian drawing up salt water from the sea and sending it into the
cisterns. Caesar supplied himself by digging wells in the sand.]

[Footnote 552: As to the destruction of the library see Dion Cassius
(42. c. 38) and the notes of Reimarus. The destruction is not
mentioned by Caesar or the author of the Alexandrine war. Kleopatra
afterwards restored it, and the library was famed for a long time
after. Lipsius (Opera iii. 11