I'd think Cleo must have learnt Latin at some point of her life, at least after her affair with Caesar, her stay in Rome and her later affair with Antony.
Is there no subsequent account of her having learnt some Latin?
Experience says that people speaking several languages (and this is most certainly her case!) are usually more prone and facilitated in learning new idioms. I wonder...


Silvia... what about telling us a bit more of your lecture on Cleo when you come back from Rome?
I think it would be very interesting. Especially after the point you made that "Cleo was an oriental queen and a powerful personality; an unbearable combination of qualities for the old dinosaurs of the Senate!".

BTW... as you'll be in Rome on the Ides and planning to go to JC temple... would you leave a flower on my part too?