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Pliny's natueal history. 
[Book Vll. 
Eerenice was the only woman who was daughter, sister, and 
mother of conquerors in the Olympian games, "^^ The family 
of the Curios has been the only one to produce three orators 
in succession ; that of the Fabii alone has given three chiefs 
of the senate in succession, Fabius Ambustus, his son Eabius 
Eulliaiius, and his grandson Quintus Fabius Gurges.'^^ 
by Ajasson : — 1. Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemus, king of Epirus, wife 
of Philip II., king of Macedon, and mother of Alexander the Great, king 
of Macedon. 2. Roxana, daughter of king Darius Codomannus, and wife 
of Alexander the Great ; her son by whom was proclaimed king by certain 
generals of Alexander, but was shortly after slain at Amphipolis. 3. Lao- 
dice the Younger, daughter of king Antiochus Soter, sister and wife of 
Antiochus Theos, and mother of king Seleucus Callinicus. 4. Berenice, 
daughter of king Ptolemy Philadelphus ; married to her brother king 
Ptolemy Euergetes, and mother of Ptolemy Philopater, by whom she was 
put to death. 5. Cleopatra, daughter of Antiochus the Great, king of Syria : 
she became the wife of king Ptolemy Epiphanes, and was mother of king 
Ptolemy Philometor. 6. Cleopatra Cocce, daughter of Ptolemy Philo- 
metor, married her uncle, king Ptolemy Physcon, and became mother of 
kings Ptolemy Lathyrus and Alexander I. 7. Cleopatra, another daughter 
of Ptolemy Philometor, married first to Alexander Balas, the usurper of 
the throne of Scythia, then to king Demetrius Mcator, and then to An- 
tiochus Venator. Her sons by Nicator were Seleucus Y. and Antiochus 
Gryphus, both of whom became kings of Syria ; and her son Cyzicenius 
by Antiochus Yenator, likewise became king of Syria. 8. Selene or Cleo- 
patra, daughter of king Ptolemy Physcon, was married, first, to king 
Ptolemy Lathyrus, secondly, to king Antiochus Gryphus, and thirdly, to 
king Antiochus Eusebes. She was mother of king Antiochus Asiaticus. 
In all, she had nine kings as her near relations or connections. 9. Stra- 
toniee, daughter of king Demetrius Poliorcetes, was married first to king 
Seleucus Nicator, and then to king Antiochus Soter, and was mother of 
king Antiochus Theros. 
'^'^ Yal. Maximus, B. viii. c. 15, gives nearly the same account of a per- 
son whom he calls Pherenice ; from the resemblance of the names, it has 
been supposed, that they may both refer to the same individual. — B. 
71 He aUudes to the three persons, father, son, and grandson, known by 
the name of C. Scribonius Curio. The first was praetor B.C. 121, one 
of the most distinguished orators of his time. His son, who acquired 
gome reputation as an orator, was tribune of the people b.c. 90, praetor 
B.C. 82, and consul in b.c. 76, with Cn. Octavius. He is represented as 
being possessed of great eloquence, and of extreme purity and brilliancy of 
diction, but to have had none of the other requisites of an orator. Like his 
son, he enjoyed the friendship of Cicero. The younger Curio was an orator 
of great talents, which, from want of industry, he left uncultivated. Cicero 
endeavoured to direct his talents into a proper channel, but all in vain, 
and he remained to the end a man of worthless and profligate character. 
He was married to Fulvia, who afterwards became the wife of Antony. 
'2 Hardouin observes, that M. Fabius Ambustus was three times consul, 
