The definite testimony of Hieronymus, who places the betrothal of the Syrian princess Cleopatra with Ptolemy Epiphanes in 556, taken in connection with the hints in Liv.xxxiii.40 and Appian.Syr.3, and with the actual accomplishment of the marriage in 561, puts it beyond a doubt that the interference of the Romans in the affairs of Egypt was in this case formally uncalled for.
3.

For this we have the testimony of Polybius (xxviii.

i), which the sequel of the history of Judaea completely confirms; Eusebius (p.

117, -Mai-) is mistaken in making Philometor ruler of Syria.

We certainly find that about 567 farmers of the Syrian taxes made their payments at Alexandria (Joseph, xii.