Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - Ko Ptolemy IV te tamaiti tuarua me te tama matamua a Ptolemy III me tana wahine a Berenice II. I whanau ia e rua tau pea i muri i te whakaturanga o tona papa ki te torona o Ihipa. Ko Ptolemy IV he tuahine pakeke, ko Arsinoe III, me nga teina toko toru, ko Lysimachus (ingoa kore), ko Alexander me Magas, i whanau katoa i nga tau 240 BC. Ko te whanau katoa e maumahara ana ki nga roopu whakapakoko i whakatuhia ki Thermos me Delphi e te Aetolian League. I raro i a Ptolemy III, kua eke te rangatiratanga o Ptolemaic ki tona teitei, i tino hinga i te rangatiratanga o Seleucid i te Pakanga Tuatoru o Hiria (246<unk>241 BC), i utua ai te whakaeke a te whenua nui o Kariki ki a Antigonid Makeronia, me te pupuri i te mana o te tata ki te rawhiti o te moana Mediterranean. Heoi, i tohuhia hoki te kingitanga e te tutu tuatahi o Ihipa ki te ture Ptolemaic, i te 245 BC. I nga tau whakamutunga o te kingitanga o Ptolemy III, te Cleomenean War
(229 <unk> 222 BC) i pakaru i Kariki, ahakoa te nui o te tautoko a Ptolemaic, i tino hinga a Cleomenes III o Sparta e tetahi roopu i arahina e Antigonid ka rere ki Ihipa.