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The hawk was an omen of death in ancient Greece.
Achilles was dipped into river Styx by the heel when he was a baby and in ancient Greek legends the river would make you invincible but you had to have a weak spot so achilles heel was his weak spot. So the term Achilles heel is used it means your weak spot.
The biggest Egyptian ship was 330 feet long and pulled Cleopatra's needle to its original spot.
No, Caesar summoned her to Rome. There's a difference. Caesar had established Cleopatra and her brother on the Egyptian throne, but the senate had to confirm their status as Allies. An allied kingdom had privileges and also responsibilities. The senate had to debate this and hear from the Egyptian representatives. It was much more efficient to have Cleopatra, on the spot to give answers, than to have her in Egypt writing long distance letters. By the way, Cleopatra never entered Rome itself. She was confined to Caesar's villa across the Tiber outside of the sacred city walls, the pomerium. This was because the Romans had a long standing rule that no crowned head could enter the city.
Please specify which of the hundreds of conflicts with Rome which occurred over the 1200 years of Roman history you are referring to.