ptolemiesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Ptolemies pl (複数形 only)

1. The Ptolemaic dynasty.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     ‘The Persians have been gone from Egypt for nigh two thousand years, and since then the Ptolemies, the Romans, and many others have flourished and held sway upon the Nile, and fallen when their time was ripe,’ I said, aghast.