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Afterward Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemy king of Egypt with a message to this effect:
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"Inasmuch as I have come again to my realm, and am seated on 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 were discomfited by us, so that we sit on 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 for a wife, and I will be thy son-in-law, and will give both thee and her gifts according to thy dignity."
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Then Ptolemy the king gave answer, saying, "Happy be the day wherein thou didst return into the land of thy fathers and sat on the throne of their kingdom.
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