... natural son) 'struck Caesar down at the foot of Pompey's statute during a session at the senate'(Plutarch). In the aftermath of Caesar's assignation, Cleopatra widely withdrew from Rome and "During the next three years, Cleopatra, now in her twenties devoted her self to the government and country. The Nile twice failed to rise to sufficiently irrigate the land, Nonetheless she managed to keep peace on ... both the country side and in Alexandria. Meanwhile civil war was erupting in Rome once again, one between Octavian and Antony and then against Caesars assassins. "Cleopatra, as a ruler ...

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