) Ftatateeta is lying dead on the altar of Ra, with her throat cut. Her
blood deluges the white stone. ACT V High noon. Festival and military
pageant on the esplanade before the palace. In the east harbor Caesar's
galley, so gorgeously decorated that it seems to be rigged with flowers,
is along-side the quay,
close to the steps Apollodorus descended when he embarked
with the carpet. A Roman guard is posted there in charge of a gangway,
whence
a red floorcloth is laid down the middle of
the esplanade, turning off to the north opposite the central gate in the
palace
front, which shuts in the esplanade on the south side. The broad steps
of the gate, crowded with Cleopatra's ladies,
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