BERENICE, daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, king of Egypt, succeeded her father before his death. This banished prince having implored the assistance of the Romans, was restored by Pompey. Berenice, to support herself on the throne, allured a prince named Seleucus, who was descended from the kings of Syria, and admitted him to share her nuptial bed and her power. But she soon became weary of Seleucus, and put him to death; after
which she cast her eye on Archelaus, who was induced to marry her, and put himself at the head of her troops. But these were repulsed by the Romans; Archelaus was killed in battle; and Ptolemy, returning to Alexandria, put his rebellious daughter to death.