 The Senate offered him no actual support in this endeavour and Cyprus remained in Ptolemy VI's hands.In 162 BC, Ptolemy VI was also involved in a scheme to destabilise the Seleucid kingdom.His agents in Rome helped a Seleucid prince, Demetrius I Soter, escape from captivity and return to Syria to seize control of the Seleucid empire from the under-age king Antiochus V Eupator.