CLEOPATRA, ell-15-23at'-ra. x. The grand - laughter of Attailus, was married to Philip of •acedonia after his divorce of Olympias, and Alt to death by Pausanias after he had mur lered Philip. 2. A sister of Alexander the was wife of Perdiccas, and killed by kntigonus when flying to Ptolemy, in Egypt. A daughter of Idus and Marpessa (the laughter of King Evenus, of fEolia), married 11eleager, son of Lug CEneus. 4. A daughter if Ptolemy Philometor, married Alexander ' Bala, and afterwards NicaMor, whose son Seleucus she killed for ascending the throne without her consent. She was suspected of preparing poison for her son Antiiichus, and was compelled by him to drink it herself, tao B.C. 5. The wife and sister of Ptolemy Euer gEtes, raised her son Alexander, a minor, to the throne of Egypt in preference to his popular elder brother Ptolemy Lathurus, whom, how ever, she soon substituted ; but again raised Alexander, by whom, for her cruelties, she was killed. 6. The famous queen of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy XI. Auldtes, and sister and wife of Ptolemy XII., was celebrated for her beauty, craftiness, and extravagance. She
attracted Julius Casar, to whom she bore a son, Cmsarion (q. v.), and who, on her behalf, involved himself in the Alexandrine war. When the triumvir M. Antony proceeded against Parthia, he summoned her before him, and, enamoured of her, publicly married her, after divorcing Octavio (whence his fatal rupture with Augustus), and gave her the greater part of the eastern provinces of Rome. Cleopatra supported Antony against Augustus, 31 s.c., but ruined his cause by flying with sixty sail to Egypt, where he soon followed her. .Antony, on a false report that Cleopatra was dead, stabbed himself, and was taken to the queen, and drawn up by a cord through a window into the monument where she had concealed herself, where he soon after died ; and Cleopatra, after vainly trying to attract Augustus, who had come to Egypt, killed herself, 30, aged 39, by the bite of an asp, to avoid being led in the triumphal pro cession ; and Egypt became a Roman province. 7. A daughter of Ptolemy Epiphanes, married Philometor, and afterwards Physcon of Cyrene.