Per idem tempus, cum Antiochus Epiphanes, qui Athenis Olympieum inchoavit, tum rex Syriae, Ptolemaeum puerum Alexandriae obsideret, missus est ad eum legatus M. Popilius Laenas, qui iuberet incepto desistere.
About this time Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria'the Antiochus who began the Olympieum at Athens'was besieging Ptolemaeus, the boy king,a at Alexandria. Marcus Popilius Laenas was dispatched on an embassy to order him to desist.
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