Whether there really were any such charges, or whether they were only fabricated by Antony as pretexts for seeing Cleopatra, the fame of whose beauty was very widely extended, does not certainly appear.

However this may be, he sent to summon the queen to come to him.

The name of the messenger whom Antony dispatched on this errand was Dellius.

Fulvia, Antony's wife, was not with him at this time.

She had been left behind at Rome.
Dellius proceeded to Egypt and appeared at Cleopatra's court.