Cleopatra connected herself with Antony, who became infatuated with her beauty and her various charms as Caesar had been.
After a great variety of romantic adventures, Antony was defeated in battle by his great rival Octavius, and, supposing that he had been betrayed by Cleopatra, he pursued her to Egypt, intending to kill her.
She hid herself in a sepulcher, spreading a report that she had committed suicide, and then Antony stabbed himself in a fit of remorse and despair.

Before he died, he learned that Cleopatra was alive, and he caused himself to be carried into her presence and died in her arms.
Cleopatra then fell into the hands of Octavius, who intended to carry her to Rome to grace his triumph.

To save herself from this humiliation, and weary with a life which, full of sin as it had been, was a constant series of sufferings, she determined to die.

A servant brought in an asp for her, concealed in a vase of flowers, at a great banquet.

She laid the poisonous reptile on her naked arm, and died immediately of the bite which it inflicted..