Indeed, Pompey’s son would not finally be defeated until 35 BCE, almost a decade after Caesar’s own assassination. The loss of the leader did not necessarily mean the loss of the cause. True, many of Pompey’s supporters were still under arms. Caesar himself had safely escaped from the palace in Alexandria where he had been besieged by Ptolemy’s forces. The internecine fighting in Egypt, which was in effect another civil war between the young queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, had been crushed. His main rival and erstwhile ally, Pompey the Great, had been decapitated-and Caesar had even managed to produce some tears when the head was brought to him. The civil wars that would make him sole ruler of Rome were drawing to a close. In the spring of 47 BCE, Julius Caesar took a Nile cruise.
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