<head>Antiochus Protests Ptolemy's War Plans</head>When Antiochus saw that the government of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Alexandria&groupId=1063&placeId=1868">Alexandria</a> was openly making preparations for a war<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note44">Preparations for the attack upon <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Coele-Syria&groupId=484&placeId=908">Coele-Syria</a> by the ministers of Ptolemy Philometor.</note>of annexation in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Coele-Syria&groupId=484&placeId=908">Coele-Syria</a>, he sent Meleager at the head of an embassy to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, with instructions to inform the Senate of the fact, and to protest that Ptolemy was attacking him without the least justification. . . .
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