Cleopatra II (c.185-116 BC), a queen of Egypt, daughter of Cleopatra I. She was married to her brother, Ptolemy VI (c.175). They and their brother, Ptolemy VIII, were co-rulers of Egypt from 171-164 during a war with Antiochus IV of Syria in which Rome finally rescued Egypt. She became regent for her son Ptolemy VII in 145 on her husband's death and married her other brother, Ptolemy VIII, in 144, whereupon he slew Ptolemy VII and made himself king. In 142 he took her younger daughter, his niece, Cleopatra III[?], as wife without divorcing his sister and made his new wife joint ruler. Cleopatra II led a rebellion against Ptolemy in 132 and she remained hostile to him until a public reconciliation was declared in 124. She had promised the throne of Egypt to her son-in-law, Demetrius II[?] of Syria, but in 125 Ptolemy had him assassinated. After this she ruled jointly with her brother and daughter until 116 when Ptolemy died, leaving the kingdom to Cleopatra III. She herself died shortly after. Her son by Ptolemy had been murdered by him to promote the interests of his sons by Cleopatra III.
making it, lays a heavy impost upon all clerical property. Upon being
pen, strength and intellect, no longer the exclusive servants or
storms one fortress, Doctor Grandfort, of Groningen, batters another.
compatriot of the great Rudolph Agricola, preaches throughout the
disputes the infallibility of the Pope, denies the utility of prayers for
absolution.
With the beginning of the 16th century, the great Reformation was
the man, who, according to Grotius, "so well showed the road to a
did not travel far upon it himself. Perpetual type of the quietist, the
and gentleness, as if Borgianism had not been too long rampant at Rome,
be satisfied with mild rebukes against sin, especially when the mild
of rebukes, the age wanted reforms. The Sage of Rotterdam was a keen
good company, the soft repose of princely palaces, better than a life of
martyrs are made, as he handsomely confessed on more than one occasion.
honor;" and, at another time, "I am not of a mind," he observed
endure the martyr's death. For myself, if it came to the point, I should
liked, he said, to live without eating and drinking, although he never
diminished his tendency to other carnal pleasures in which he had
thought Luther going too fast and too far. He began by applauding ended
delayed for centuries had Erasmus and other moderate men been the only
republic of letters, his efforts to infuse a pure taste, a sound
owlish pedantry which had so long flapped and hooted through mediveval
the religious Reformation, his name seems hardly to deserve the
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