Cleopatra

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…not a princess fit to rule by his side. She smiled as he spoke to her, promised that she would acquiesce in his wishes, and made up her mid to kill herself with an asp than to follow the orders of Octavian (19). She managed to have the snake smuggled into her apartment with a basket of fruit. In 30 BC the world was to be forever changed, for the rule of a great queen was diminished.