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[2] However, none of these things greatly disturbed him, but, as if he gladly laid aside his hopes, that so he might lay aside his anxieties also, he forsook that dwelling of his in the sea, which he called Timoneum, and after he had been received into the palace by Cleopatra, turned the city to the enjoyment of suppers and drinking-bouts and distributions of gifts, inscribing in the list of ephebi1 the son of Cleopatra and Caesar,

1 See the note on lxii. 1. Caesarion was to be educated as a Greek, Antyllus as a Roman.

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