Ptolémée IX

See also: Ptolémée (homonymy)

Ptolémée Sôter (Saver) called Lathyre or Lathyros (" Chick-pea " ; it undoubtedly had a button on the nose as Cicéron) is an Egyptian Pharaon of the dynasty of Lagides born in -142. He is the son of Ptolémée {{VIII}} (often called Ptolémée formerly) and of Cléopâtre {{III}}. He succeeds his father in -116 and controls under the supervision of his mother who forces it to divorce his first wife (and probably sister) Cléopâtre {{IV}} in order to marry with her other sister Cléopâtre Séléné, of which he has a girl, Bérénice {{III}}, and who leaves it rather quickly.

It tries in -107 to get rid of the cumbersome supervision of his mother but this one reverses it and makes assemble on the throne its other wire, until there king of Cyprus, Ptolémée {{X}} '' Alexandre {{Ier}} ''. It settles then in Syria and takes share with the ceaseless dynastic quarrels of the last Séleucides. It in vain tries to constitute a kingdom in Judaea and Phénicie but fails under the action of thousand-year-old Ptolémée Ve front J. - C. With the fall of this last in -88, it finds the throne of Egypt for a calamitous reign, confronted with the indigenous revolts and incompetent to bring a military aid to its Roman allies, in particular Lucullus in war against Mithridate {{VI}}. He dies in -80.

Its nephew Ptolémée {{XI}} briefly succeeds to him, followed by his natural son Ptolémée {{XII}}.

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