The book Cleopatra of Egypt Antiquitys Queen of Romance was written by author Sergeant, Philip Walsingham, 1872- Here you can read free online of Cleopatra of Egypt Antiquitys Queen of Romance book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Cleopatra of Egypt Antiquitys Queen of Romance a good or bad book?
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Tales about Cleopatra's behaviour were added to increase the effect. Her favourite oath was alleged to be, " As surely as one day I shall administer justice on the Capitol, " and she was represented as having made use of drugs to overthrow Antony's wits and make him her slave. No need was seen of justice to " the harlot queen of incestuous Canopus, who aspired to set up against our Jupiter the barking Anubis, and to drown the Roman trumpet with her rattling sistrum, " 229 CLEOPATRA OF EGYPT as ...the poet Propertius wrote in a fiercely patriotic mood. It is a remarkable thing that, in spite of Antony having so long left Octavian master of Rome, in spite of the departure of his friends among the aristocracy, and in spite of the steady campaign of slander against him and Cleopatra, there still continued to be, even in the second half of the year 32, a very considerable body of opinion in his favour at Rome. He had apparently given every opportunity to his rival, yet Octavian did not feel himself in a position to take up arms against him as against a public enemy.
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