Of the CXII. booke.
HErein is related the fearfull condition of that side which was vanquished, and how they fled in sundrie parts of the world. Cn. Pompeius being arrived in Aegypt, by the commaundement of Ptolomeus the king, as yet an infant under age; and persuasion of Theodorus his teacher and schoolmaster, who might of all other over-rule the K. most; also of one Photinus, was killed by the hands of Achilla, one who had a warrant to execute that feat, even in his very barge before hee was landed. But Cornelia his wife, and Sextus Pompeius his sonne, fled backe into Cyprus. Caesar three daies after the foresaid victorie, pursued Pompeius: and when Theodorus presented unto him his head and signet of his finger, he was displeased in his heart and wept withall. He entred Alexandria without any daun∣ger, notwithstanding the troubles and hurliburly therein. Caesar was created Dictatour. Hee restored Cleopatra unto the kingdome of Aegypt: and when Ptolomeus made warre by their advise and coun∣sell who moved him to murder Pompeius, Caesar vanquished him, with great perill and hazard of him∣selfe. As Ptolomeus fled, his vessell wherein he was embarked ran a ground in Nilus, and there stucke fast. Besides, this booke sheweth the painfull and toilsome iourney of Marcus Cato with his legions, in Affricke through the desert wildernesse: and the war which Cn. Domitius fortunatly managed against Phraates the Parthian king.