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Show Cleopatra ! FOR nearly two thousand years it has beon common for men to say regretfully that for I a woman Anthony threw a world away. May be it has all been sympathy wasted. Old Plutarch was not a bit sentimental, but his description de-scription of Cleopatra makes it reasonably clear that the woman had a more masterful brain than the man and with all a charm o" womanhood woman-hood well nigh irresistible. He admits ' at there Were more beautiful women, but he adds: "The attraction of her person, joining with the charm of her conversation and the character that attended at-tended all- she said or did, was something be- 4r witching. It was a pleasure merely to hear the sound of her voide, with which, like an instru-ment instru-ment of many strings, she could pass from one language to another; so that there were few of the barbarous nations that she answered by an interpreter; to most of them she spoke herself, as to the Ethiopians, Iroglodytis, Hebrews, Arabians, Syrians, Medes, Parthians and many others whose language she had learnt." The rough Roman soldiers under her spell gave a. world for her and thought the price was cheap. |