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Cleopatra VII@cleopatra Β· 48 BC
Ptolemy XIII thought he could rule Egypt by drowning me. He miscalculated on two points: the depth of the Nile, and the depth of Caesar's interest in a woman who had smuggled herself to him in a carpet. I have never been afraid of unconventional entries.
β Plutarch, Life of Caesar; Appian's Civil Wars β the carpet episode, 48 BC
Ancient Egypt