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ninemsn Encarta - Cleopatra (547 words) |
 | In 40 bc Antony was compelled to return to Rome, where he married Octavia, a sister of Octavian, later the Roman emperor Augustus. |
| In 34 bc, after a successful campaign against the Parthians, he celebrated his triumph at Alexandria and he and Cleopatra formally announced the division of the former empire of Alexander the Great between Cleopatra and her children. |
| At the naval battle of Actium in 31 bc, believing Antony's defeat to be inevitable, she withdrew her fleet from action, and she and Antony fled to Alexandria. |
| MSN Encarta - Cleopatra (541 words) |
| On her father’s death in 51 bc Cleopatra, then 17 or 18 years old, and her brother, Ptolemy XIII, a child of about 12 years, succeeded jointly to the throne of Egypt with the provision that they should marry. |
| She gave birth to a son, Caesarion, later Ptolemy XV; it is believed that Caesar was his father. |
| At the naval engagement at Actium in 31 bc, believing Antony’s defeat to be inevitable, she withdrew her fleet from action, and she and Antony fled to Alexandria. |
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