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Origin of the name CLEOPATRA.
Etymology of the
name CLEOPATRA.
Meaning of the baby name CLEOPATRA.
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CLEOPATRA. Anglicized
form of Greek Kleopatra
(q.v.), meaning "glory of the father."
Cleopatra "Cleo" Madonna Higgins, an English actress, dancer, singer,
and songwriter. Cleopatra Anderson "Cleo" Rocos, a
UK-based comedy actress and TV and theatre producer and presenter. (Wiki)
... Cleopatra, with all her beauty and fame,
did not hand on the name which she had received in common with a long
course of daughters of Egypto-Greek kings. Russia alone accepts it
as a frequent Christian name, and it is occasionally to be found in
England and America... (History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)
Cleopatra,
a queen of Egypt. She was the daughter of Ptolemy Epiphanes, and
married her brother Ptolemy Philomater about B.C. 170, and on his
decease she again married her second brother Ptolemy Physcon B.C. 146,
by whom she was soon repudiated.
Cleopatra, a queen of Egypt, and daughter of
Ptolemy Philomater, by whose orders she was forcibly married to her
uncle and father-in-law, Ptolemy Physcon, on his repudiation of her
mother. On the death of her husband she became co-sovereign with
her son Ptolemy Soter II. B.C. 117, and then quarreling with him drove
him from the throne, and placed her second son Alexander in his stead,
who in return caused her to be put to death about B.C. 89.
Cleopatra Berenice, a queen of Egypt, and
daughter of Ptolemy Soter II. See Berenice.
Cleopatra, surnamed Tryphena, a queen of
Egypt. She was the wife of Ptolemy XIII., daughter of Ptolemy Neus
Dionysius, and sister of the following Cleopatra.
Cleopatra, a queen of Egypt, and the most
famous of her race in history. She was the daughter of Ptolemy
Auletes, and was born about B.C. 69. On his death she became sole
queen, and then married her eldest brother Ptolemy, who was put to death
by Julius Caesar, who reconfirmed her position on the throne. She
the married her second brother, also named Ptolemy, but growing tired of
him caused him to be poisoned, and then visited Rome. Her further
career belongs to Classic history. She died B.C. 30.
Cleopatra, an Egyptian lady, the daughter of
Ammonius, and the wife of Soter, archon of Thebes. Her mummy and
sarcophagus are in the British Museum.
Cleopatra Candace, a Greco-Egyptian lady, the
daughter of Ammonius, and wife of Soter by whom she was the mother of
the lady Hathor-set-dsjatho, or, as the Greeks called her, Sensaos,
which see. (An Archaic Dictionary, Cooper, 1876).
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