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Excerpt from Cleopatra of Egypt, Antiquity's Queen of Romance Nearly two thousand years ago, on one of those bright and clear days which mark the presence Of Spring in Lower Egypt, before the hot wind from the desert begins to blow, there took place in the city of Alexandria the first meeting between two persons who were destined to become the hero and heroine of What those writers who lived near to'i't in time felt to be the most en thralling romance of antiquity, devoting to it so much attention that the outlines of the story have been familiar throughout all subsequent ages to people taking little or no interest generally in the history of the ancient world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.