Some of the people--Egyptians mostly--cried out to her in their own tongue:-- "Hail to the ever glorious Daughter of Ra!" But the queen paid them little heed.

Once her restless eyes lit on the carriage of Cleomenes, and she made a slight inclination of the head in return to that gentleman's salute, for Cleomenes had standing at court as one of the "friends of the king."[172] [172] A high order of Egyptian nobility.
The cortege rolled away toward the palace.
"This Cleopatra is a rather remarkable woman," observed Cornelia, for the sake of saying something.
"Indeed, that is true," replied Cleomenes, as he turned to drive homeward.

"She is worthy to have lived in the days of the first Ptolemies, of Ptolemaeus Soter and Philadelphus and Euergetes.

She is still very young, only twenty, and yet five years ago she was so fascinating that when Antonius, of whom I have heard you speak, came here with Gabinius's expeditions he quite lost his heart to her.

She has a marvellous talent for statecraft and intrigue and diplomacy.