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Afterward Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemee king of Egypt with a message to this effect:
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Forasmuch as I am come again to my realm, and am set in the throne of my progenitors, and have gotten the dominion, and overthrown Demetrius, and recovered our country;
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For after I had joined battle with him, both he and his host was discomfited by us, so that we sit in the throne of his kingdom:
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Now therefore let us make a league of amity together, and give me now thy daughter to wife: and I will be thy son in law, and will give both thee and her as according to thy dignity.
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Then Ptolemee the king gave answer, saying, Happy be the day wherein thou didst return into the land of thy fathers, and satest in the throne of their kingdom.