Talk:Ptolemy of Mauretania

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Claudius

The statement that "Claudius tried a Roman Senator called Gaius Rabirius Postumus for treason who before tried unsuccessfully to recover money from Ptolemy" does not belong in the section on Ptolemy's death. I would also question the sentence. An attempt to recover money is not treason, there was obviously more involved, which should be added. Or is this entirely confused, and a reference to the trial in 54BC of Gaius Rabirius Postumus by the senate?Royalcourtier (talk) 22:12, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The sentence before about Caligula's practical joke seems barely relevant, too. Perhaps that whole paragraph is better deleted or moved to a 'Misc mentions' section. Shuggaroth (talk) 21:03, 26 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Ptolemy of Mauretania/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

This article is very poorly written. There are numerous run-on sentences as well as random bits of information inserted seemingly randomly at the ends of paragraphs of differing topics. There also seem to be a few points in the article that either have no reference or seem to be based on conjecture. At the very least, this article needs to be edited for grammar.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.199.248.2 (talk • contribs)

OK. Go ahead and edit it. We'd be glad to see whatever improvements you can make. Fan-1967 18:40, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 11:44, 12 October 2010 (UTC). Substituted at 03:31, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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As pointed out in a little notice at the top of the page, (I have yet to read this page in full, so this may be an outdated message. I understand this is a page not likely updated often D:) this page lacks the proper encyclopedic tone required in Wikipedia articles. If this is in fact still a current issue, I suggest someone fix it up. If not, the aforementioned notice should be removed. I plan to do all of this myself, but I am busy reading books about Ptolemy's mother and might forget- Thank you!

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Drusilla

With regard to this edit: Britannica is not incorrect, it's just differentiating between the facts (last known descendant) and the speculations that Drusilla was possibly either his daughter, sister or cousin (in fact, we can't be sure since her parents are not mentioned in the literature). I have therefore restored the stable version and adjusted the footnote to make sure that the speculations are not presented as facts in Wikipedia's voice. M.Bitton (talk) 23:15, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]