Serapion (strategos)

Serapion (Ancient Greek: Σεραπίων; possibly died 41 BC) was strategos of Cyprus and an admiral of the Ptolemaic navy in 43 BC, during the reign of Cleopatra. Against the intention of the Egyptian queen, he supported Gaius Cassius Longinus in the Liberators' civil war against Mark Antony and Octavian, but had to take refuge in Tyre and was handed over to Cleopatra in 41 BC. He may have been the same Serapion, who was instructed by Julius Caesar to negotiate with the Egyptian commander Achillas in 48 BC.

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