Auletes

"The elder of the two is properly Ptolemy Philadelphus, but we gave him the nickname Auletes because at the time he came to us he had a piping, flutelike voice.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Greek Auletes, there is unfortunately nothing more than just conjectural evidence of this word.

A Mediterranean flute wanderword 2010

Born and reared in a nest of vipers like Ptolemy Auletes, her idea of sovereignty was to leave the fiddling work of daily administration to others, and those others were as likely to be successful sycophants as truly talented.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Look at what happened to the four legions of Gabiniani left to garrison Alexandria on behalf of its king, Ptolemy Auletes!

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Born and reared in a nest of vipers like Ptolemy Auletes, her idea of sovereignty was to leave the fiddling work of daily administration to others, and those others were as likely to be successful sycophants as truly talented.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Look at what happened to the four legions of Gabiniani left to garrison Alexandria on behalf of its king, Ptolemy Auletes!

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Ptolemy X Alexander II, son of Ptolemy IX, succeeded but was at once slain by the people of Alexandria (80), who set up an illegitimate son of Ptolemy VIII, Ptolemy XI Auletes (“flute-player”) or Neos (“new”) Dionysos.

g. Ptolemaic Egypt to the Roman Conquest 2001

Auletes is a silly man, somewhat deficient in true intellect and quite without political acumen.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Auletes chooses to believe that he is more important than they, and that the Alexandrians are powerful enough to end in defeating the priests.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Or perhaps it might be best to say, Auletes believes it is more important to be the Macedonian King than the Egyptian Pharaoh-that if he is King, he must also end in becoming Pharaoh.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993