The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt

“Histories make men wise.”—Bacon.

“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age ... has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.”—Emerson.

“To philosophise on mankind exact observation is not sufficient.... Knowledge of the present must be supplemented from the history of the past.”—Taine.

“Only the dead men know the tunes the live world dances to.”—Le Gallienne.

“Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for ... the earth shall cast out the dead.”—Isaiah.

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CLEOPATRA.

The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt

A Study in the Origin of the Roman Empire

BY ARTHUR E. P. BROME WEIGALL

INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF ANTIQUITIES, GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT

AUTHOR OF ‘THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AKHNATON, PHARAOH OF EGYPT,’ ‘THE TREASURE OF ANCIENT EGYPT,’ ‘TRAVELS IN THE UPPER EGYPTIAN DESERTS,’ ‘A GUIDE TO THE ANTIQUITIES OF UPPER EGYPT,’ ETC., ETC.

WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh and London 1914

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY FRIEND OF MANY YEARS, RONALD STORRS, ORIENTAL SECRETARY TO THE BRITISH AGENCY IN EGYPT, SCHOLAR, POET, AND MUSICIAN.