Caesar's Decision to Stay in Egypt

With the death of Ptolemy the 12th and 51 BC the ruling dynasty was fractured. The dead king had decreed that his son and daughter ought to be co-reuurs in the Egyptian tradition. But the same court ministers who would later assassinate Pompey were trying to marginalize her power. So Cleopatra turned to the local Egyptians for support. By ingratiating herself with the locals the queen became even more dangerous to the ministers controlling her brother. When Caesar arrived in Egypt a full blown civil war was underway with Cleopatra exiled from the capital leading an army of local Egyptians. And this is why it had been such a huge mistake by the conspiring ministers