 | Plutarch - Classical biography - 1803 - 454 pages
...this, and the time passed in mutual treats and diversions. Cleopatra, at the same time, was making a collection of poisonous drugs, and being desirous...capital convicts. Such poisons as were quick in their operations she found to be attended with violent pain and convulsions; such as were milder •were... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1816 - 352 pages
...collection of poisonous drugs, and wishing to ascertain which was the least painful, she tried them upon the capital convicts. Such poisons, as were quick...milder, were slow in their effect : she therefore undertook the examination of venomous creatures, and caused different kinds of them to be applied to... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1819 - 524 pages
...collection of poisonous drugs, and wishing to ascertain which was the least painful, she tried them upon the capital convicts. Such poisons, as were quick...milder, were slow in their effect : she therefore undertook the examination of venomous creatures* and caused different kinds of them to be applied to... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1822 - 534 pages
...this, and the time passed in mutual treats and diversions. Cleopatra, at the same time, was making a collection of poisonous drugs, and being desirous...capital convicts. Such poisons as were quick in their operations, she found to be attended with violent pain and convulsions ; such as were milder were slow... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 392 pages
...which was the least painful, she tried them upon the capital convicts. Such poisons, as were quic km their operation, she found to be attended with violent...pain and convulsions ; such as were milder, were slow ia their effect : she therefore undertook the examination of venomous creatures, and caused different... | |
 | Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - Greece - 1826 - 446 pages
...operation, she tried them on the capital convicts. Such poisons as were quick in their operations, she found to be attended with violent pain and convulsions;...herself to the examination of venomous creatures, ana caused different kinds of them to be applied to different persons, under her own inspection. These... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 400 pages
...Despair and die ! " 2 NOTES. Note 1, page 168, line 10. Dread knowledge of the pangs that ransomfrom the chain. Cleopatra made a collection of poisonous...attended with violent pain and convulsions ; such as were mildest were slow in then- effect : she therefore applied herself to the examination of venomous creatures... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1879 - 634 pages
...tliis, and the time passed in mutual treats and diversions. Cleopatra, at the same time, was making a collection of poisonous drugs, and, being desirous...operation, she tried them on the capital convicts. Such ¡raisons as were quick in their operations, she found to be attended with violent pain and convulsions... | |
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Cleopatra made a collection of poisonous drugs, and being desirous to know which was least painful in the operation, she tried them on the capital convicts. Such poisons as were quick in their operation, she found to be attended with violent pain and... 
