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Cleopatra

Pompey's severed head sent to Caesar

Oct, 58 BC
Alexandria, Egypt

Ptolemy XIII believed he had demonstrated his power and simultaneously defused the situation by having Pompey's severed head sent to Caesar, who arrived in Alexandria by early October and resided at the royal palace.


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