Cleopatra (III)

III. CLEOPATRA, the Daughter of Ptolemy Philometor, and the Cleopatra we have been last speaking of, married first of all Alexander Balas King of Syria. Four years after her Father Philometor took her from Balas, with an intention to give her to Demetrius Nicanor, who likewise was King of Syria. But Demetrius remaining a Prisoner with the Parthians, against whom he had made War, and having married Radeguna the Daughter of Arsaces his Conqueror, Cleopatra was wedded to Antiochus Sidetes, the Brother of Demetrius Nicanor. At last Demetrius Nicanor returning into Syria, and re-ascending the Throne of his Ancestors, Cleopatra was reconciled to him, and returned with him. There is no express mention of this Princess in the sacred Writings; but she is sometimes spoken of in the Comments on the Maccabees. She had laid a design to poison her Son Gryphus, but he prevented her, and obliged her to drink the draught which she had provided for him¹, in the year of the World 3882, before J. C. 118, before the vulg. Æra 122.

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