Identifier: internationallib02lang (find matches)
Title: The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York Merrill and Baker
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
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and rebellious horse of the human soul, flingingoff all good and wholesome counsel, and breaking fairly loose,he sends Fonteius Capito to bring Cleopatra into Syria. Towhom at her arrival he made no small or trifling present, Phoe-nicia, Coele-Syria, Cyprus, great part of Cilicia, that side ofJudaea which produces balm, that part of Arabia where theNabathaeans extend to the outer sea; profuse gifts which muchdispleased the Romans. For although he had invested severalprivate persons in great governments and kingdoms, and be-reaved many kings of theirs, as Antigonous of Judaea, whosehead he caused to be struck off (the first example of that pun-ishment being inflicted on a king), yet nothing stung theRomans like the shame of these honors paid to Cleopatra.Their dissatisfaction was augmented also by his acknowledgingas his own the twin children he had by her, giving them thename of Alexander and Cleopatra, and adding, as their sur-names, the titles of Sun and Moon. But he who knew how to
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apq - BQ -2 an rONl AND CLBOPATB put a good color on the most dishonest action, would lay, thatthe greatness of the Roman empire consisted more in givingthan in taking kingdoms, and that the way to carry noble bloodthrough the world was by begetting in every place a new linoand series o\ kiii_rs: his own ancestor had thus been horn ofHercules: Hercules had not limited his hopes of progenv to asingle womb, nor feared any law like Solons or any audit ofprocreation, hut had freely let nature take her will in the foun-dation and first commencement of many families. • ***••• Marching his army in great haste in the depth of winterthrough continual storms of snow, he lost eight thousand of hismen. and came with much diminished numbers to a place calledthe White Village, between Sidon and Berytua, on the sea-ooast, where he waited for the arrival of Cleopatra. And.being impatient of the delay she made, lie bethought himselfof shortening the time in wine and drunkenness, and vet couldn

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