his insolent crimes had deserved, for he was killed in an opprobrious
manner, like a woman, while he endeavored to conceal himself in a
feminine habit, as we have elsewhere related.

7. Hereupon Ptolemy blamed himself for having given his daughter in
marriage to Alexander, and for the league he had made with him to assist
him against Demetrius; so he dissolved his relation to him, and took his
daughter away from him, and immediately sent to Demetrius, and offered
to make a league of mutual assistance and friendship with him, and
agreed with him to give him his daughter in marriage, and to restore him
to the principality of his fathers. Demetrius was well pleased with this
embassage, and accepted of his assistance, and of the marriage of his
daughter. But Ptolemy had still one more hard task to do, and that was
to persuade the people of Antioch to receive Demetrius, because they
were greatly displeased at him, on account of the injuries his father
Demetrius had done them; yet did he bring this about; for as the people
of Antioch hated Alexander on Ammonius's account, as we have shown
already, they were easily prevailed with to cast him out of Antioch;
who, thus expelled out of Antioch, came into Cilicia. Ptolemy came then
to Antioch, and was made king by its inhabitants, and by the army; so
that he was forced to put on two diadems, the one of Asia, the other of
Egypt: but being naturally a good and a righteous man, and not desirous
of what belonged to others, and besides these dispositions, being also a
wise man in reasoning about futurities, he determined to avoid the
envy of the Romans; so he called the people of Antioch together to an
assembly, and persuaded them to receive Demetrius; and assured them that
he would not be mindful of what they did to his father in case he should
be now obliged by them; and he undertook that he would himself be a good
monitor and governor to him, and promised that he would not permit him
to attempt any bad actions; but that, for his own part, he was contented
with the kingdom of Egypt. By which discourse he persuaded the people of
Antioch to receive Demetrius.

8. But now Alexander made haste with a numerous and great army, and came
out of Cilicia into Syria, and burnt the country belonging to Antioch,
and pillaged it; whereupon Ptolemy, and his son-in-law Demetrius,
brought their army against him, [for he had already given him his
daughter in marriage,] and beat Alexander, and put him