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The Death of Antony
Cleopatra staged Antony's death to gain favor with Octavian. She could have sent an assassin, but that might be too much even for her. The slave he asks to help kill him is called Eros. And also the fact that it doesn't work because Eros takes the sword and plunges it into his own body.