She wrote continually to Antony, urgently entreating him to come to Rome, and displaying in her letters all those marks of agitation and distress which a wife would naturally feel under the circumstances in which she was placed.

The thought that her husband had been so completely drawn away from her by the guilty arts of such a woman, and led by her to abandon his wife and his family, and leave in neglect and confusion concerns of such momentous magnitude as those which demanded his attention at home, produced an excitement in her mind bordering upon frensy.

Antony was at length so far influenced by the urgency of the case that he determined to return.

He broke up his quarters at Tarsus and moved south toward Tyre, which was a great naval port and station in those days.

Cleopatra went with him.