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Cleopatra
Complete

CHAPTER XI
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The inexorable destroyer is less willing to permit this from the Queen of Egypt.

These are grey hairs, and they came from this head, however eagerly you may deny it.

Whose save my own are these lines around the corners of the eyes and on the brow?
What say you to the tooth which my lips do not hide so kindly as you assert?
It was injured the night before the luckless battle.

My dear, faithful, skilful Olympus, the prince of leeches, is the only one who can conceal such things.

But it would not do to take the old man to the war, and Glaucus is far less adroit.


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