【實用書籍app】Cleopatra ,by Jacob Abbott|最夯免費app-gigacircle

Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such convincing proofs of her charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and,therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of her beauty. Julius Caesar, whose legions trampled the conquered world from Canopus to theThames, capitulated to her, and Mark Antony threw a fleet, an empire and his own honor to the winds to follow her to his destruction. Disarmed atlast before the frigid Octavius, she found her peerless body measured by the cold eye of her captor only for the triumphal procession, and thefriendly asp alone spared her Rome's crowning ignominy.