In fact, the great protection of Egypt had always been her isolation.The people of Alexandria, and the world in general, considered such pursuits as these wholly unworthy the attention of the representative of so illustrious a line of sovereigns, and the abhorrence which they felt for the monarch's vices and crimes was mingled with a feeling labatt blue line long distance of contempt for the meanness of his ambition.Ptolemy's murders.Pompey was accordingly labatt blue line long distance interested in favoring the royal fugitive's cause.Caesar was in the ascendency at Rome at the time that Ptolemy made his application for an alliance.Antony conducted his troop of horsemen labatt blue line long distance across the desert in a very safe and speedy manner, and arrived before Pelusium.That they could certainly do and then, when the rebellion was suppressed, and Berenice's government overthrown, they could invite Ptolemy to return to his kingdom and resume his crown in a peaceful manner.Antony, who was as proud and lofty in spirit as he was degraded in morals and condition, refused labatt blue line long distance to do this unless Gabinius would give him a command.His application to Pompey.It was labatt blue line long distance all an invention of their enemies.The one rejoiced and the other mourned.The Egyptian soldiers were, in fact, discontented and mutinous, labatt blue line long distance perhaps, in part, because they considered the government on the side of which they were compelled to engage as, after all a usurpation.