Cleopatra chose to flee to Syria because the Ptolemies had once ruled there.

克利奥帕特拉选择逃往叙利亚，因为托勒密家族曾经统治过那里。

The first Ptolemies had ruled benevolently, but their descendants, including Cleopatra's father proved to be weak, even foolish leaders.

初代托勒密的统治是仁慈的，但是他们的后代，包括克利奥帕特拉的父亲，被证明是软弱的，甚至是愚蠢的领袖。

In 305 BC, the Antigonids of Macedonia who were also rivals of the Ptolemies, besieged Rhodes in an attempt to break the Rhodo-Egyptian alliance.

公元前305年，托勒密一世的对手，马其顿王国安提柯一世，为了打破罗德—埃及联盟包围了罗德岛。

The Stone is not unique; there are another 17 similar inscriptions quite like it, all in three languages and all proclaiming the greatness of the Ptolemies.

这块石碑并非独一无二，另外还有十七块类似的石碑被保存了下来，每块石碑都用三种语言赞美了托勒密诸王的伟大成就。

The Antigones in Greece and Macedonia, the Ptolemies in Egypt, the Seleucids in Persia, all of which lasted longer than Alexander’s empire itself.

希腊和马其顿的安提戈涅斯、 埃及的托勒密王朝、波斯的塞琉古王朝， 所有这些都比亚历山大帝国本身存在的时间更长。

The Ptolemies didn't trouble to learn Egyptian, they simply made all their officials speak Greek, and so Greek would be the language of state administration in Egypt for a thousand years.

托勒密不愿学埃及语，因而命令所有的埃及官员都使用希腊语, 于是在长达一千年的时间里，希腊语一直是埃及的官方语言。