Cleopatra needed whatever help she could get if her reign was to be successful (The Search for Cleopatra by Michael Foss pg. 71). There was a group barbaric soldiers called Gabinius a kind of Egyptian mob that were trained to do many horrible things that made the streets of Egypt unsafe (Foss pg. 72). Though this mob was very well feared Cleopatra was determined to stop them or at least lessen the impact this group of barbarians had on Egypt (Foss pg. 72). It was about three years later that Julius Caesar found these Ganinius to be a “violent disorder” (Foss pg. 72).
Julius Caser and Pompey went into battle together (Foss pg. 74). Cleopatra as well her brother Ptolemy XIII saw Pompey as trouble and not one to mess