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 had inflicted the cruel injuries upon the sufferers, and calling upon
them to arise and punish him for his crimes. In this and in other
similar ways she awakened among the people of the court and of the city
such an animosity against Lathyrus, that they expelled him from the
country. There followed a long series of cruel and bloody wars, between
the mother and the son in the course of which each party perpetrated
against the other almost every imaginable deed of atrocity and crime.
Alexander, the youngest son was so afraid of his terrible mother, that
he did not dare to remain in Alexandria with her, but went into a sort
of banishment of his own accord. He, however, finally returned to Egypt.
His mother immediately supposed that he was intending to disturb her
possession of power, and resolved to destroy him. He became acquainted
with her designs, and, grown desperate by the long-continued pressure of
her intolerable tyranny, he resolved to bring the anxiety and