The dictator now made her Queen of Egypt, and gave her, as co-regent, her youngest brother, a boy not half her own age.

To Arsinoe he granted the life she had forfeited, but sent her to Italy.
"Peace followed the victory.

Now, it is true, grave duties must have summoned the statesman back to Rome, but he tarried three full months longer.
"Whoever knows the life of the ambitious Julius, and is aware what this delay might have cost him, may well strike his brow with his hand, and ask, 'Is it true and possible that he used this precious time to take a trip with the woman he loved up the Nile, to the island of Isis, which is so dear to the Queen, to the extreme southern frontier of the country ?' Yet it was so, and I myself went in the second ship, and not only saw them together, but more than once shared their banquets and their conversation.

It was giving and taking, forcing down and elevating, a succession of discords, not unpleasant to hear, because experience taught that they would finally terminate in the most beautiful harmony.

It was a festal day for all the senses." "I imagine the whole Nile journey," interrupted Barine, "to be like the fairy voyage, when the purple silk sails of Cleopatra's galley bore Antony along the Cydnus." "No, no," replied Archibius, "she first learned from Antony the art of filling this earthly existence with fleeting pleasures.