CAIRO TO KISUMU throne. When he left for Rome some time later he took her with him and kept her there for a year or two. After the murder of Caesar, Cleopatra, who had returned to Egypt, made a conquest of Marc Antony and remained his sweetheart to the day when he committed suicide upon the report that she had killed herself. Antony had then been conquered by Octavianus, his brother-in-law, and it is said that Cleopatra tried to capture the heart of Octa¬ vianus before she took her own life by putting the poison¬ ous asp to her breast.

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