‘But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal with them and will prevail.'
But those who perpetrated these evil deeds were themselves dealt with, for Berenice's brother Ptolemy III, Euergetes, ‘a shoot from the ancestry of Berenice', came against their army, seized their main fortress, and totally subjugated them.