"It was a pleasure merely to hear the sound of her voice, with which, like an instrument of many strings, she could pass from one language to another; so that there were few of the barbarian nations that she answered by an interpreter."
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Plutarch, in Lives, Antony and Cleopatra, Ch. 8
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