. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . sof Caesar and Mark Anthony, destroyed herself by the biteof an asp, after the battle of Actium, A. C. 30, that shemight not fall into the hands of Augustus, the victor. [VidePlate III]Horat. 1. 1, od. 37. Ansa etjacentem visere regiamVultu sereno fartis, et asperasTractate serpentes, vt atrumCorpore combiberet venenum. Stat. Sylv. 1. 3. Actios Ausoniasfugit Cleopat
. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . sof Caesar and Mark Anthony, destroyed herself by the biteof an asp, after the battle of Actium, A. C. 30, that shemight not fall into the hands of Augustus, the victor. [VidePlate III]Horat. 1. 1, od. 37. Ansa etjacentem visere regiamVultu sereno fartis, et asperasTractate serpentes, vt atrumCorpore combiberet venenum. Stat. Sylv. 1. 3. Actios Ausoniasfugit Cleopatra 1. 7; Pint, in Pomp, et Ant. ; Flor. 1. 4; Appian. deBell. Civ. 1. 5. Cleopatra, wife of Gessius Florus, a governor of Judea inthe reign of Nero, was an accomplice with him in all theenormities he committed. Joseph. Ant. 1. 20. Cleopatra, a mistress of Claudius. Tac. Annal. 1. 11. Cleopatra, a wife of Tigranes, and sister of 1. 39. Cleopatra (Xumis.) several medals are extant bearing differ-ent effigies of the Egyptian queens of this name, as in fig. ]and 2, attributed to the Cleopatra mentioned under History,who married her uncle Evergetes 11, and to her daughterFig. 1. Fie. 2. Fig. the wife of Ptolemy Soter II. Some, without doubt, be-long to the queen of Syria, whose head is represented underthe form of a goddess, as in fig. 3, with that of her firsthusband Alexander, in-scription on the reverse, Fig. AAE^AX-APOY; she is also repre-sented with her son Antio-chus VIII, the inscription,BASIAEilS ANTIOXOYBA21AI22H2 KAEOflA-TPAS, as in fig. 4. Butfar the greater part of themedals or coins bear theeffigy of the famous Cleo-patra, the last queen ofEgypt; [vide Plate III]sometimes with the inscrip-tion, BA2IAICCA KAEO-IIATPA 9EA NE^TE- PA. The effigy of her daughter, by Anthony, with Juba,the husband of the latter, is given, as in fig. M
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