Cleopatra, father-loving, the new goddess.
ἐν Ῥώμῃ θριαμβευθήσομαι (in Romae triumphabor)
Politicians
Cleopatra
Last pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt (69-30 BC). The first of her Greek dynasty to learn Egyptian, she allied with Caesar and Antony to keep Egypt independent. After Actium she killed herself; Egypt became a Roman province.
View this figure's profile
Source: プルタルコス『対比列伝』アントニウス伝84-85Unverified
Cleopatra's Other Quotes
Related Quotes
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
-- Pericles
Crates with only his wallet and tattered cloak laughed out his life jocosely, as if he had been always at a festival.
-- Crates of Thebes
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
-- Blaise Pascal
I will not be led in triumph.
-- Cleopatra
Shot by a fool — it can't be helped.
-- Itō Hirobumi