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Cleopatrawas introduced to Julius Caesar by Apollodorus in a bale of rich Syrian rugs. When the bale was unbound, there was discovered the fairest and wittiest girl of all the earth, and Caesar became her captive slave. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Cleopatra from Fact Monster:
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