He took Arsinoe prisoner.

He decreed that Cleopatra should reign as queen, and that she should marry her youngest brother, the other Ptolemy,--a boy at this time about eleven years of age.

A marriage with one so young was, of course, a mere form.

Cleopatra remained, as before, the companion of Caesar.
Caesar had, in the mean time, incurred great censure at Rome, and throughout the whole Roman world, for having thus turned aside from his own proper duties as the Roman consul, and the commander-in-chief of the armies of the empire, to embroil himself in the quarrels of a remote and secluded kingdom with which the interests of the Roman commonwealth were so little connected.

His friends and the authorities at Rome were continually urging him to return.