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Pothinus and the boy-king, both, as may be conceived, very dissatisfied at once with the peremptory requisition of all debts and with the intervention in the throne-dispute which could only issue, as it did, in the favour of Cleopatra, sent in order to pacify the Roman demands the treasures of the temple and the gold plate of the king with intentional ostentation to be melted at the mint; with increasing indignation the Egyptians who were pious even to superstition, and who rejoiced in the world-renowned magnificence of their court as if it were a possession of their own beheld the bare walls of their temples and the wooden cups on the table of their king.
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