Ptolemy of Cyprus

Ptolemy was 80-58 BC King of Cyprus.

He was a younger son of Ptolemy IX. Soter of Egypt and thus uncle of Cleopatra. After he had it spoiled Pulcher during the pirate war with Publius Clodius, this did everything to take revenge on him. According to Strabo ( Geographika 14, 6, 6 ) Clodius had fallen into the hands of Cilician pirates who were then at the height of their power. He asked by Ptolemy letter about ransom him. The king came to the suggestion that the ransom, which he sent, however, was so low that the pirates rejected it. Finally they let Clodius free without ransom. This sought revenge and sent, after he had become a tribune, Cato settle with the mission to Cyprus, Ptolemy. He was assigned the night and poisoned himself.

The historian Ammianus Marcellinus expressed the suspicion that it was lost by the Romans mainly to its treasures with which they wanted to fill the empty treasury. After the island 58-56 had been made to the BC praetorian province, these treasures were the quaestor, Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis ( 95-46 BC) towed as war booty to Rome. It is said to have acted as items worth 7000 talents.