They crowded together into a boat which lay at the bank and pushed off from the shore.

The boat was overloaded, and it sank as soon as it left the land.

The Romans drew the bodies which floated to the shore upon the bank again, and they found among them one, which, by the royal cuirass which was upon it, the customary badge and armor of the Egyptian kings, they knew to be the body of Ptolemy.
The victory which Caesar obtained in this battle and the death of Ptolemy ended the war.

Nothing now remained but for him to place himself at the head of the combined forces and march back to Alexandria.

The Egyptian forces which had been left there made no resistance, and he entered the city in triumph.