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Still more suspicious were the claims which Rome held in suspense over Egypt and Cyprus: it is significant that the king of Pontus betrothed his two daughters Mithradatis and Nyssa to the two Ptolemies, to whom the senate continued to refuse recognition. A more favourable moment could hardly be hoped for, and after all it was always better to declare war than to let it be declared against him.
Still more suspicious were the claims which Rome held in suspense over Egypt and Cyprus: it is significant that the king of Pontus betrothed his two daughters Mithradatis and Nyssa to the two Ptolemies, to whom the senate continued to refuse recognition. A more favourable moment could hardly be hoped for, and after all it was always better to declare war than to let it be declared against him.
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