He advanced toward Egypt, but it was at the head of his army, and with a determination to drive Caesar and all his Roman followers away.
[Sidenote: Caesar's guilty passion for Cleopatra.] When Cleopatra arrived, she found that the avenues of approach to Caesar's quarters were all in possession of her enemies, so that, in attempting to join him, she incurred danger of falling into their hands as a prisoner.

She resorted to a stratagem, as the story is, to gain a secret admission.

They rolled her up in a sort of bale of bedding or carpeting, and she was carried in in this way on the back of a man, through the guards, who might otherwise have intercepted her.

Caesar was very much pleased with this device, and with the successful result of it.

Cleopatra, too, was young and beautiful, and Caesar immediately conceived a strong but guilty attachment to her, which she readily returned.