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an Athenian demagogue, originally a tanner by trade. He was well known in public before the death of Pericles, and in 427 B. C. distinguished, himself by the proposal to put to death the adult males of the revolted Mytileneans and sell the women and children as slaves. In 425 he took Sphacteria from the Spartans; but in 423 and 422 he was violently attacked by Aristophanes in the Knights and in the Wasps. He was sent, however, in 422 against Brasidas, but allowed himself to be taken unawares, and was slain while attempting to flee.
CLEOPATRA CLEOPATRA, a Greek Queen of Egypt; born 69 в. c., the eldest daughter heir to the throne with his eldest son her father died, ied, leaving her as jointheir to the throne with his eldest son Ptolemy, whom she was to marry-such marriages being common among the Ptolemies. Being deprived de of her part in the government (49 B. c.), she won Cæsar to her cause, and was reinstated by his influence. During a second disturbance Ptolemy lost his life, and Cæsar pro- claimed Cleopatra Queen of Egypt; though she was compelled to take her brother, the younger Ptolemy, then 11 years old, as husband and colleague. Cæsar continued some time at Cleopatra's court, had a son by her named Cæsarion (afterward put to death by Augustus), and gave her a magnificent reception when she subsequently visited him at Rome. By poisoning her brother she re- mained sole possessor of the regal power, took the part of the triumvirs in the civil war at Rome, and after the battle of took the part of the triumvirs in the Their meeting was celebrated by splendid festivals; she accompanied him to Tyre, and was followed by him on her return to Egypt. After his conquest of Armenia he again returned to her and made his kings.
On the commencement of the war between Augustus and Antony the latter lost a whole year in festivals and amusetween Augustus and Antony the latter and Athens, and when at last the fleets met at Actium, Cleopatra suddenly took to flight, with all her ships, and Antony, as if under the influence of frenzy, immediately followed her. They fled to Egypt, and declared to Augustus that if Egypt were left to Cleopatra's children they CLERK with carvings setting out his own greatness and achievements. About 14 в. c. the obelisks were moved from Heliopolis to Alexandria and set up in the Cæsarium. In 1819 one of these obelisks was presented by the Egyptian Government 0 ام