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Cleopatra

CHAPTER X
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The cloak being very valuable, he reserved it; and he withheld, also, a considerable part of the money which had been given him for the expenses of the funeral.

He supposed that Antony would probably not inquire very closely into the details of the arrangements made for the funeral of his most inveterate enemy.
Antony, however, did inquire into them, and when he learned what the officer had done, he ordered him to be killed.
The various political changes which occurred, and the movements which took place among the several armies after the battle of Philippi, can not be here detailed.

It is sufficient to say that Antony proceeded to the eastward through Asia Minor, and in the course of the following year came into Cilicia.

From this place he sent a messenger to Egypt to Cleopatra, summoning her to appear before him.

There were charges, he said, against her of having aided Cassius and Brutus in the late war instead of rendering assistance to him.


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