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Ptolemy (IV)

IV. Ptolemy Lathurus died in the Year of the World 3923, before Christ 77, before the vulgar Era 81, after having reign’d thirty-six Years from the Death of his Brother Philometor.

The other Ptolemies Kings of Egypt, a Catalogue of whom we have given under the Article EGYPT, having no relation to the History of the Bible, are here omitted.

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