Magas in a Sentence
  • Magas before his death had betrothed his daughter Berenice to the son of his brother Ptolemy II.
  • At the beginning of his reign he reunited the Cyrenaica to Egypt by marrying Berenice the daughter and successor of Magas (who had died about 250).
  • Magas of Cyrene opened war on his half-brother (274), and Antiochus I., the son of Seleucus, desiring Palestine, attacked soon after.