THEOSISJerome of Stridon
A shoot will emerge from its root and will come with a host, entering the domain of the northern king, and he will act according to his own desires, taking possession of it. He will seize their deities, idols, and valuable treasures of gold and silver, carrying them off to Egypt, becoming mightier than the king of the north. Then the southern king will invade the territory but will return to his homeland. Following the assassination of Verenice, after the death of her father Ptolemy Philadelphus in Egypt, her brother, also named Ptolemy and referred to as Euergetes, ascended to the throne as a branch from her root, being her own sibling.
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He advanced with a significant army and entered the realm of the northern king, specifically Seleucus, known as Callinicus, who ruled alongside his mother, Laodicea, in Syria. He began to operate according to his own will and successfully claimed possession of Syria, Cilicia, and the regions beyond the Euphrates, nearly all of Asia. However, upon learning of a revolt brewing in Egypt, he plundered Seleucus’s kingdom, seizing forty thousand talents of silver as well as two thousand five hundred valuable vessels and idols, including those sent by Cambyses to Persia after the conquest of Egypt. Thus, the idolatrous people of Egypt referred to him as Euergetes the Benefactor, for he restored their gods after many years. He kept Syria for himself, while he entrusted Cilicia to his ally Antiochus, and the territories beyond the Euphrates to another leader, Xanthippus.