"As for me, lament not my misfortunes," he said; "but congratulate me upon the happiness which I have enjoyed; I have lived the greatest and most powerful of men; and though I fall, my fate is not ignominious; _a Roman myself, I am, at last, by a Roman overcome_" Having thus said, he expired.
19.

Proculei'us now made his appearance by command of Augus'tus, who had been informed of Antony's desperate conduct.

He was sent to try all means of getting Cleopa'tra into his power.20.Augustus had a double motive for his solicitude on this occasion; one was--to prevent her destroying the treasures she had taken with her into the tomb; the other--to preserve her person, as an ornament to grace his triumph.
21.

Cleopa'tra, however, was upon her guard, and rejected any conference with Proculei'us, except through the gate, which was well secured.

At length, having procured a ladder, he, with two of Augustus's soldiers, entered by the same window through which Antony had been drawn up.