During our stay at Philae she found a troglodyte who was induced to teach her his language.

There were Jews enough here in Alexandria to instruct her in theirs, and she also learned its kindred tongue, Arabic.
"When, many years later, she visited Antony at Tarsus, the warriors imagined that some piece of Egyptian magic was at work, for she addressed each commander in his own tongue, and talked with him as if she were a native of the same country.
"It was the same with everything.

She outstripped us in every branch of study.

To her burning ambition it would have been unbearable to lag behind.
"The Roman Lucretius became her favourite poet, although she was no more friendly to his nation than I, but the self-conscious power of the foe pleased her, and once I heard her exclaim 'Ah! if the Egyptians were Romans, I would give up our garden for Berenike's throne.' "Lucretius constantly led her back to Epicurus, and awakened a severe conflict in her unresting mind.

You probably know that he teaches that life in itself is not so great a blessing that it must be deemed a misfortune not to live.