Historia Amoris : a History of Love Ancient And Modern
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In other ways she must have resembled her. She was beautiful, but not remarkably so. The Egyptian women generally were good- looking. The Asiatics admired them very much. They were preferred to the Chinese, whose eyes oblique and half-closed perturbed sages, demons even, with whom, Michelet has suggested, they were perhaps akin. Cleopatra lacked that in- sidiousness. Semi-Greek, a daughter of the Ptolomies, she had the charm of the Hellenic hetaira. To aptitudes natural and very great, she adde...d a varied assortment of accomplish- ments. It is said that she could talk to any one in any tongue. That is probably an exaggera- tion. But, though a queen, she was ambitious; though a girl, she was lettered ; succinctly, she was masterful, a match for any man except Caesar. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA 89 Cleopatra must have been very heady. Caesar knew how to keep his head. He could not have done what he did, had he not known. Dissolute, as all men of that epoch had become, he differed from all of them in his epicureanism.
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