brother-murdering

Updated: May 10, 2025

When Napoleon said of Count Lobau, whose proper name was Mouton, 'Mon mouton c'est un lion, it was the same instinct at work, though working from an opposite point. It made itself felt no less in the bitter irony which gave to the second of the Ptolemies, the brother-murdering king, the title of Philadelphus.

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