Cleopatra and Octavian

Cleopatra was still holled up in her mausoleum, hiding place. Octavian used familiar go betweens to coax the queen out of her hole. She at first tried to deny that she had played any meaningful role in antny's career. But whe it as clear that octavian wasn't buying the whole i am an innocent bystander routine, cleopatra switched and simply began begging for her life. No one really knows how true the story actually is, but it has gained widespread acceptance anyway. According to the familiar legend, she had an attendant smuggle an asp into her room by concealing the snake in a ba of figs.