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Caesar and Cleopatra 恺 撒 与 克 A C T I 里 奥 帕 特 拉 An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards 〔〕 the end of the XXXIII Dynasty ,in the y ear 706 by Roman computation,afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 〔〕 48 B .C .A great radiance of silver fire,the dawn of a moon- lit night,is rising in the east .The stars and the cloudless sky ? 〔〕 are our own contemporaries ,nineteen and a half centuries y ounger than we know them ;but you would not guess that from 〔〕 their appearance .Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization :a palace,and soldiers .The palace,an old,low,Syrian 〔1〕 dynast y n .朝代, 王朝 〔2〕 radiance n .光辉, 闪烁, 辐射率, 深粉红色 〔3〕 con temporary n .同时代的人 adj .当代的, 同时代的 〔4〕 dr awback n .缺点, 障碍, 退还的关税, 退税 — 1 — Caesar and Cleopatra building of whitened mud, is not so ugly as Buckingham Pal-