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Cf. the cry attributed to her in Livy, apud Porphyr. οὐ θριαμβεύσομαι; Shaks. Ant. and Cleo. 5. 1,' her life in Rome | Would be eternal in our triumph'; 5. 2, 'Shall they hoist me up, | And show me to the shouting varletry | Of censuring Rome?' Tenn. Dr. of Fair Women, 'I died a queen'; F. Q. 1. 5. 50, 'Highminded Cleopatra that with stroke | Of aspës sting herself did stoutly kill.' Her effigy was borne in the triumph. Cf. Propert. 4. 10. 53, Bracchia spectavi sacris admorsa colubris.—privata: discrowned queen. Superbo (1. 35. 3).—non humilis: Martial, 7. 40. 2, pectore non humili.


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