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CLEOPATRA . 1. A daughter of Ptolemy Epiphanes. She married in b.c. 173 her own brother Ptolemy Philometor (Ad. Est 11:1), and afterwards her second brother Ptolemy Physcon (Liv. xlv. 13, Epit . 59; Justin, xxxviii. 8). She greatly favoured the Jews in Egypt (Jos. [Note: Josephus.] c. Apion . ii. 5), and encouraged Onias IV. in the erection of the temple at Leontopolis (Jos. [Note: Josephus.] Ant . XIII. iii. 2). 2. A daughter of Ptolemy Philometor. In b.c. 150 she was given in marriage by her father to Alexander Balas ( 1Ma 10:57-58; Jos. [Note: Josephus.] Ant . XIII. iv. 1). When Balas was driven into Arabia, she became (b.c. 146), at her father’s bidding, the wife of his rival, Demetrius Nikator ( 1Ma 11:12; Jos. [Note: Josephus.] Ant . XIII. iv. 7; Liv. Epit . 52).