Numenius lived in Egypt.
The Roman province of Egypt ( , [ ajˈɡʏptʊs ] ; Aigyptos [ ɛ́ːɡyptos ] ) was established in 30 BC after Octavian ( the future emperor Augustus ) defeated his rival Mark Antony , deposed his lover Queen Cleopatra VII and annexed the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt to the Roman Empire . Numenius of Apamea was a Greek philosopher , who lived in Apamea in Syria and flourished during the latter half of the 2nd century AD .