id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1550 Ptolemy XII Auletes - Wikipedia .html text/html 6510 1051 79 Cleopatra II died in 115 BC and shortly afterwards Cleopatra III forced Ptolemy IX to divorce his sister-wife Cleopatra IV, who was sent off to marry the Seleucid king Antiochus IX Cyzicenus. At the start of this war, Cleopatra III sent her grandsons to the island of Kos along with her treasure in order to protect them.[16][17] There, Ptolemy XII and Ptolemy of Cyprus seem to have been captured by Mithridates VI of Pontus in 88 BC, at the outbreak of the First Mithridatic War.[14][18] Ironically, their father had reclaimed the Egyptian throne around the same time. At some point during this period, probably in 81 or 80 BC, they were engaged to two of Mithridates' daughters, Mithridatis and Nyssa.[19] Meanwhile, Ptolemy IX died in December 81 BC and was succeeded by Berenice III. 305 AD) wrote of Ptolemy XII's daughter Cleopatra VI Tryphaena, who reigned alongside her sister Berenice.[64] The Greek historian Strabo (c. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1550.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1550.txt