Capitolo 1
CLEOPATRA
FROM
JACOB ABBOTT
PREFACE
Of all the beautiful women of history, nobody has left each other so convincing
tests of his/her charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of the destiny in Rome and,
therefore, that of the world, turned apart because of his/her beauty. Julius
Caesar to which legions stamped on the world conquered by Canopus the
Thames, capitulated to Mark Antony and she it threw a fleet, an empire and
his/her his/her own honor to the winds to follow her/it to his/her destruction. Disarmed to
hard in front of the frigid Octavius, she found his/her incomparable body measured from
the cold eye of his/her capturer only for the triumphal procession and the
friendly asps saved alone its Rome you/he/she is crowning the ignominy.
INDEX
CHAPTER
ME. THE VALLEY OF THE NILE
II. THE PTOLEMIES
III. ALEXANDRIA
IV. THE FATHER OF CLEOPATRA
V. ACCESSION TO THE THRONE
YOU. CLEOPATRA E CAESAR
VII. THE ALEXANDRINE WAR
VIII. CLEOPATRA UNA QUEEN
IX. THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI
X. CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY
XI. THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM
XII. THE END OF CLEOPATRA
ILLUSTRATIONS
CLEOPATRA
MEETING HIMSELF/HERSELF/ITSELF OF CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY
CLEOPATRA TESTING THE POISON ON THE SLAVES
[The illustration: the Map--'Scene of the History of CLEOPATRA']
CHAPTER ME.
THE VALLEY OF THE NILE.
The parentage and birth of Cleopatra.--The residence of Cleopatra in
Egypt.--I wait physical of Egypt.--The wings of the eagle and
science.--The physical particularities of Egypt connected with the laws of
rain.--You read General pluvius.--Causes of which you/they change the quantity
rain.--Impressive contrasts.--Regions of Rainless.--Region of rainless Gran of
Asia and Africa.--The Andeses.--Map of the region of rainless.--Valley of the
Nile.--The Red Sea.--The oases.--Siweh.--Mountains of the Moon.--The
River Nile.--Incessant rains.--Flood of the Nile.--Course of the
river.--The waters' lowering.--Luxuriant vegetation.--Absence of
forests.--The antiquity Gran of Egypt.--His/her monuments.--The Delta of the
Nile.--The Delta as seen by the sea.--Pelusiac speaks to emphatic way of the Nile.--The