CHAPTER V.
ACCESSION TO THE THRONE.
Cleopatra .-- Excitement in Alexandria .-- Ptolemy restored .-- Acquiescence of the people .-- Festivities .-- Popularity of Antony .-- Antony's generosity .-- Anecdote .-- Antony and Cleopatra .-- Antony returns to Rome .-- Ptolemy's murders .-- Pompey and Caesar .-- Close of Ptolemy's reign .-- Settlement of the succession .-- Accession of Cleopatra .-- She is married to her brother .-- Pothinus, the eunuch .-- His character and government .-- Machinations of Pothinus .-- Cleopatra is expelled.
-- Cleopatra's army .-- Approaching contest .-- Caesar and Pompey.
-- Battle of Pharsalia .-- Pompey at Pelusium .-- Treachery of Pothinus .-- Caesar's pursuit of Pompey .-- His danger .-- Caesar at Alexandria .-- Astonishment of the Egyptians .-- Caesar presented with Pompey's head .-- Pompey's seal .-- Situation of Caesar .-- His demands .-- Conduct of Pothinus .-- Quarrels--Policy of Pothinus.
-- Contentions .-- Caesar sends to Syria for additional troops.
At the time when the unnatural quarrel between Cleopatra's father and her sister was working its way toward its dreadful termination, as related in the last chapter, she herself was residing at the royal palace in Alexandria, a blooming and beautiful girl of about fifteen.
Fortunately for her, she was too young to take any active part personally in the contention.

Her two brothers were still younger than herself.

They all three remained, therefore, in the royal palaces, quiet spectators of the revolution, without being either benefited or injured by it.

It is singular that the name of both the boys was Ptolemy.
The excitement in the city of Alexandria was intense and universal when the Roman army entered it to reinstate Cleopatra's father upon his throne.

A very large portion of the inhabitants were pleased with having the former king restored.