“They’ve made me as tall as you,” he said proudly.
“Well, you almost are. You are tall, like your father.” And he had kept the resemblance, with the same broad face and keen, deep-set eyes.
“My father,” he said quietly. “It makes me sad that I can never see him.”
“Yes, it makes me sad too.”
The Memoirs of Cleopatra - Margaret George
“It’s a boy”
“I should like it to be a boy”
“We’ll call him Ptolemy”
“Of course”
“And Caesar also, of course. Ptolemy Caesar. Good combination, Egypt and Rome”.
From the first instant I saw you, entering Rome on that monstrous stone beast, shining in the sun like a little gold toy how I envied Caesar. Went suddenly sick with it. Not his conquests or his triumphs. Not his titles of the mob. I envied him you.
| — | Cleopatra of Egypt, From History to Myth |
But before any reports came to me about either set of games, I had yet another misfortune. I lost the child I was carrying, the last legacy from Caesar.
In its particulars, it was like the birth of Caesarion, only the child was too small to live - it was only halfway to its time of normal birth. I was forced to lie abed, dosed with pennyroyal and draughts of red wine. It was not my body that needed cosseting, however, but my spirits.
Farewell, and farewell, I thought, holding tightly to the pendant around my neck. Now there will never be a new thing between us; our life together is frozen in the past.
Gone, gone, and gone, I repeated to myself, lying on the bed, and each word was like a hammer on my soul. Gone forever.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra - Margaret George
Children of Royalty: Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
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