“Where’s my serpent of old Nile?
For so he calls me.”

— Cleopatra VII

As quoted, speaking of Antony, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act I, scene V (1623)

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last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt -69–-30 BC

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