[Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott]@TWC D-Link bookCleopatra CHAPTER VIII 19/20
She proceeded, accordingly, into Syria, no longer as a captive, but still as an exile from her native land.
We shall hereafter learn what became of her there. Calpurnia mourned the death of her husband with sincere and unaffected grief.
She bore the wrongs which she suffered as a wife with a very patient and unrepining spirit, and loved her husband with the most devoted attachment to the end.
Nothing can be more affecting than the proofs of her tender and anxious regard on the night immediately preceding the assassination.
There were certain slight and obscure indications of danger which her watchful devotion to her husband led her to observe, though they eluded the notice of all Caesar's other friends, and they filled her with apprehension and anxiety; and when at length the bloody body was brought home to her from the senate-house, she was overwhelmed with grief and despair. She had no children.
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