Even to me, in whom she found a second brother and fully trusted, she spoke of these sorrowful things only in guarded allusions.

I know that she understood what was passing fully and perfectly, and how deeply she felt it; but pain placed itself between her and the 'chief good,' and she mastered it.

And when she sat at work, with what tenacious power the delicate creature struggled until she had conquered the hardest task and outstripped Charmian and even me! "In those days I understood why, among the gods, a maiden rules over learning, and why she is armed with the weapons of war.

You have heard how many languages Cleopatra speaks.

A remark of Timagenes had fallen into her soul like a seed.