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Seleucus

Cleopatra's treasurer who betrays her to Octavian.

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First appearance: viii of the last supper of cleopatra of the song of charmion of the drinking of the draught of death of the revealing of harmachis of the summoning of the spirits by harmachis and of the death of cleopatra

In VI: Of the Workings of the Learned Olympus at Memphis; Of the Poisonings of Cleopatra; Of the Speech of Antony to His Captains; and of the Passing of Isis from the Land of Khem: Surrenders Pelusium to Caesar, acting…

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  • Minor characters and deities
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  • Egyptian loyalists and Romans
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