Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Don tallafawa halattawarta tare da talakawanta, Berenice IV ta auri Archelaus (wanda aka ruwaito shi zuriyar Mithridates VI na Pontus); duk da haka, Romawa - musamman masu ba da kuɗi na Ptolemy XII kamar Rabirius Postumus - sun ƙuduri aniyar maido da Ptolemy XII. Pompey ya rinjayi gwamnan Roma na Suriya Aulus Gabinius ya mamaye Masar kuma ya mayar da Ptolemy XII, ya ba shi talanti 10,000 don aikin. Kodayake ya sa shi cikin rikici da dokar Rome, Gabinius ya mamaye Masar a cikin bazara na 55 BC ta hanyar Hasmonean Yahudiya; Hyrcanus II ya sa Antipater Idumaean, mahaifin Hirudus Mai Girma, ya ba sojojin da Roma ke jagoranta kayan aiki. A karkashin umurnin Gabinius shi ne matashin jami'in sojan doki Mark Antony, wanda ya bambanta kansa ta hanyar hana Ptolemy XII kashe mazaunan Pelousion da kuma ceton gawar Archelaus bayan an kashe shi a wani yaƙi (ta tabbatar masa da binne sarauta). Cleopatra mai shekaru 14 zai kasance tare da tafiyar da Romawa zuwa Misira; shekaru daga baya, Mark Antony ya ce ya ƙaunace ta a wannan lokacin. Abun nasu ya fara ne kawai a 41 BC, lokacin da mai nasara Antony ya kira Cleopatra zuwa hedkwatarsa a Tarsus don amsawa game da goyon bayanta ga Gaius Cassius Longinus a cikin yakin basasa na Liberators.
na 43 zuwa 42 BC.