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.
If Cleopatra did choose to die by the bite of a cobra, it would have been a highly symbolic political actâone that declared her the rightful ruler of Egypt, at one with the old gods of Egypt, and immortal. (The shedding of skin helped to perpetuate the image of the snake as an immortal animal.)