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 | | After the death of Physcon in 116 BC, his widow Cleopatra III forced her eldest son Lathyrus to divorce his sister/wife Cleopatra IV and marry their younger sister Selene. |
 | | In 103 BC, Cleopatra III was allied with the Jewish king Alexander Jannaeus against Lathyrus, and in order to oppose a possible alliance of Lathyrus with Cyzicenus, sent reinforcements to Grypus, and sent Selene, formerly married to Lathyrus, to be his wife. |
 | | He dated it to 92 BC, after Antiochus X was killed by the Parthians, in the interval just before the occupation of the city by Demetrius III, and before the beginning of the long series of dated autonomous bronzes of the city which runs from 92/91 BC well into the period of Tigranes’ control. |
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