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- REMARKS:
life span from c183 BCE to 116 BCE
- BIOGRAPHY
ruler of Egypt 169 BCE in Alexandria, co-ruler of Egypt 168-164 BCE, ruler of Egypt & Alexandria 164-163 BCE, ruler of merely Kyrene 163/162-154 BCE, prisoner in Cyprus 154 BCE, ruler of mereley Kyrene 154-144 BCE, ruler of Egypt 144-132 BCE as well as of Kyrene, Cyprus & Alexandria, ruler of merely Cyprus 131-130 BCE and Kyrene, ruler merely in Nile Valley, Cyprus & Kyrene 130-126 BCE, ruler of Egypt 126-116 BCE as well as of Kyrene & Alexandria. Since c610 AUC (144 BCE) he held the support of (most of the) native Egyptian population (against all his rivals).
Because of his obesity around the year 615 AUC, there were sceptics who surmised that he was not able to sire some of the children his niece-wife however bore during their marriage.
In the year 615 AUC (=139 BCE), Ptolemaios VIII Euergetes II receives a Roman embassy, led by Scipio Aemilianus, which was intended to effect a peaceful settlement of all affairs in the Eastern Mediterranean. Scipio Aemilianus reported that King Ptolemaios VIII Euergetes II, by this point, is enormously fat and is transported everywhere in a litter.
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