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From this crime, two daughters, Cleopatra and Chione, were con- ceived, as were the winged Argonauts, Calais and Zetes.

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.

Cleopatra considered the old woman to be the incarnation of Kerana, mother of the seven evil children of Tau, was reason enough to be concerned.

He said it was written in Kufi, sometimes known as the character of Cleopatra, an early form of Arabic writing that dates back to the Middle Ages.

The little cardboard sign with peez godz scrawled on it in conventional Roman lettering wigwagged desperately over the heads of the gawking mob surrounding the short, dumpy little man whose only clothing was a pleated linen kilt, red leather sandals, and a heavy black Cleopatra wig.

The daughters of Macedonian aristocrats, they had been given to Cleopatra when all three were small children, to be the royal companions of the second daughter of King Ptolemy Auletes and Queen Cleopatra Tryphaena, a daughter of King Mithridates of Pontus by his queen.

A wild scene in the Harz Mountains gives way to an enchanted hail in which are seen the most famous courtesans of ancient history--Phryne, Lais, Aspasia, Cleopatra, and Helen of Troy.

Luckily, however, he was not as effeminate as his younger brother, the Cyprian, who never managed to sire any children: Auletes and Cleopatra Tryphaena confidently expected to give Egypt heirs.

Who Cleopatra, fleshpot of Egypt, and Cressid and Venus are we may guess.

Divine, beautiful, heartstopping, a miracle of flesh and bone and air and fire but not Cleopatra.

This seemed to signal the onset a new era, and the holographs now displayed a youthful Cleopatra touring her kingdom while riding in a golden chariot.

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

Which was of scant concern to the Alexandrians, who replaced him with his eldest daughter, Berenice, and her mother, Cleopatra Tryphaena.

The prince cantered Bucephalus in a long circuit of the stadium, acknowledging the cheers, finally halting before the royal dais where Philip sat with Cleopatra beside him, flanked by his generals Parmenion, Antipater, Attalus and Cleitus.

We visited together everything to be visited in Alexandria: the Lighthouse, the Mausoleum of Alexander and that of Mark Antony, where Cleopatra triumphs eternally over Octavia, the temples, the workshops and factories, and even the quarter of the embalmers.