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    1. 1 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son,


    2. were in a love hotel, the Cleopatra room; she was lying on the Sphinx bed half-naked, and


    3. Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra, and they came to Ptolemais in the hundred threescore and second year: 58 Where King Alexander


    4. meeting him, he gave to him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory, as the manner of kings


    5. 57 So Ptoleme went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra and they came to Ptolemais in the hundred threescore and second year: 58 Where King Alexander meeting him he gave to him his daughter Cleopatra and celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory as the manner of kings is


    6. Cleopatra ruled ancient Egypt, but she was of


    7. Cleopatra was the lover of Julius Caesar and later Marc


    8. Although Caesar was 52 years-old and Cleopatra was 21, 9


    9. Cleopatra was a ‘special guest’ of Caesar at the time he


    10. In an expected move, Cleopatra

    11. Antony was informed that Cleopatra had committed suicide


    12. then it was apparent what kind of a woman Cleopatra was


    13. “I have quite a few in mind, but Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt would definitely be a good case to study


    14. Queen Cleopatra was a refined and intelligent woman and a born seductress, even if she was not in reality the physical beauty she was claimed to be


    15. but on the death of Cleopatra was reclaimed by Antiochus Epiphanes after a bloody battle


    16. In that battle Octavian’s forces won a decisive victory and Antony fled with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII back to Egypt


    17. You will, among other things, see in it Julius Cesar having his fling with Cleopatra


    18. ‘My Cleopatra headdress!’ She lifted out an Egyptian-style wig and positioned it on her head, the


    19. She was still wearing the Cleopatra headdress, the


    20. Could it really be that Alicia, who was about to remove her Cleopatra headdress and put on a newly

    21. Neither could you tell just by looking that we’d invoked the spirits of the dead and cast yet another spell of protection around Cleopatra Hill and the town built on it


    22. That was the state of affairs when Taylor –while filming Cleopatra in Rome in


    23. dollar contract to perform in Cleopatra, receiving also 10 percent of the film’s gross sales


    24. Cleopatra, Camp Cesar, Mazarita, Stanley, Glymenopoulos, Victoria, Fleming, Gianaclis, San Stefano, Smouha


    25. To think of Alexandria's history as you passed the districts called Cleopatra, Soter and Camp César


    26. “You did not think you would escape me, did you, my Cleopatra?” I told her


    27. Cleopatra herself was not Egyptian


    28. They were Phryne, Cleopatra, Messalina, those three celebrated courtesans


    29. Franz went in with his eyes blindfolded, and was waited on by mutes and by women to whom Cleopatra was a painted strumpet


    30. Rare birds, retaining their most brilliant plumage, enormous fish, spread upon massive silver dishes, together with every wine produced in the Archipelago, Asia Minor, or the Cape, sparkling in bottles, whose grotesque shape seemed to give an additional flavor to the draught,—all these, like one of the displays with which Apicius of old gratified his guests, passed in review before the eyes of the astonished Parisians, who understood that it was possible to expend a thousand louis upon a dinner for ten persons, but only on the condition of eating pearls, like Cleopatra, or drinking refined gold, like Lorenzo de' Medici

    31. Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal? Good: he left her and gained the world of men


    32. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish, Julius Caesar, Paracelsus, sir Thomas Lipton, William Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Hermit, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W


    33. He had written largely upon the subject, he had lived two years in a tomb at Thebes, while he excavated in the Valley of the Kings, and finally he had created a considerable sensation by his exhumation of the alleged mummy of Cleopatra in the inner room of the Temple of Horus, at Philae


    34. Quickness was ready at the call, and the two figures passed lightly along by the Meleager, towards the hall where the reclining Ariadne, then called the Cleopatra, lies in the marble voluptuousness of her beauty, the drapery folding around her with a petal-like ease and tenderness


    35. But she became conscious of the two strangers who suddenly paused as if to contemplate the Cleopatra, and, without looking at them, immediately turned away to join a maid-servant and courier who were loitering along the hall at a little distance off


    36. Peter, Moses on Isaac, AEschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius


    37. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison


    38. Charges folks on Friday nights to see Caesar stabbed, Antony on his sword, Cleopatra bitten


    39. She lays close to the Endymion, between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk


    40. Like Mark Antony, for days and days along his green-turfed, flowery Nile, he indolently floats, openly toying with his red-cheeked Cleopatra, ripening his apricot thigh upon the sunny deck

    41. They say that Cleopatra (excuse an instance from Roman history) was fond of sticking gold pins into her slave-girls' breasts and derived gratification from their screams and writhings


    42. And in "Antony and Cleopatra" we make the acquaintance of several exemplary common soldiers


    43. Cleopatra shudders at the thought that


    44. “Are they distinct? Some one—a man, of course—has said that if Cleopatra had been without a front tooth the whole history of the world would have been changed; and Heine, you remember, when asked about Madame de Staël, remarked that, had Helen looked so, Troy would not have known a siege


    45. If Cleopatra had lost a whole row, Antony and every other man who knew her would have insisted that women in the full possession of their molars were repulsive


    46. Suffice it to say that, as Shakespeare wrote of Cleopatra, “age cannot wither nor custom stale her infinite variety;” and in spite of the amazing influx of their young and lovely and accomplished countrywomen into London since their day of arrival, these two ladies still stand, as they have stood for years, at the very top of the entire American set abroad


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    "cleopatra" definitions

    beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)