The Queen of Egypt, with her infant son Cæsarion about four years old, was then in Rome, living with Cæsar in his villa on the farther side of the Tiber.
The flatterers of the conqueror would of course say that Cæsarion was not the son of Julius, but of Ptolemy, the elder of the two boys who had been called Cleopatra's husbands.
Thou didst see great Cæsar in his bloody robe, and he threw his arms about the Prince Cæsarion and led him hence.
When he embraced the child Cæsarion he did it for a sign that to him, and him alone, had passed his greatness and his love.
Inasmuch, however, as it was the object of Octavius to retain Egypt, Cæsarion might have been an obstacle to him there.
Therefore Cæsar did put Cæsarion to death, after the death of his mother Cleopatra.
Though she still maintained the claims of her eldest son Cæsarion to be the divine Julius' only direct heir, we do not hear of her sending requests to Antony to support him, or that any agents were working in her interests at Rome.
Cleopatra was still in Rome, and entertained hopes that the boy Cæsarion would be declared the dictator's heir; for though he had been married thrice, there was no one of his lineage surviving.
Public opinion demanded no concessions to its delicacy; the feelings of the injured Calpurnia had been blunted by repeated outrage, and Cleopatra was encouraged to proclaim openly that her child Cæsarion was the son of her Roman admirer.
When Cæsar Octavianus took Egypt he put Cæsarion to death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sarion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
