Top definition bani unknown Pronounciation: Bon-E a gorgeous, intellectual girl. its common for her to have dark hair and fair skin. she's outgoing and the complete opposite of ignorant. such a civilized, knowledgeable creature...
Fearing she could be next, Cleopatra packed her snake and flute and fled to friends outside Alexandria . She was lurking there when she received news that Julius Caesar and a party of 5,000 Roman soldiers had just arrived in Egypt looking for Pompey.
According to Plutarch (quoted by Ussher), Cleopatra tested various deadly poisons on condemned persons and concluded that the bite of the asp (from aspis - Egyptian cobra, not European asp) was the least terrible way to die; the venom brought sleepiness and heaviness without spasms of pain.