person
Cleopatra VII
Cleopatra
also: Клеопатру
The last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, famed for her political alliances and romantic relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Reading notes
- My "She" §1 the ancient Cleopatra with the no less ancient Antony
Stock classical shorthand for seductive, ruinous allure; invoked here purely for comic exaggeration, likening the narrator's unnamed "she" to Cleopatra's legendary hold over Mark Antony.