The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt / A Study in the Origin of the Roman Empire

Transcriber’s Note
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“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