They fought with great ardour, without advantage on either side, except from a small appearance of disorder in the centre of Antony's fleet.21.But, all on a sudden, Cleopa'tra determined the fortune of the day.

She was seen flying from the engagement with her sixty sail, struck, perhaps, with the terrors natural to her sex; and, to increase the general amazement, Antony himself precipitately followed, leaving his fleet at the mercy of the conquerors; while the army on land submitted, being thus abandoned by their general.
22.

When Cleopa'tra fled, Antony pursued her in a quinquireme,[17] and coming alongside her ship, entered it without any desire of seeing her.

She was in the stern, and he went to the prow, where he remained silent and melancholy.

In this manner he continued three whole days, during which, either through indignation or shame, he neither saw nor spoke to Cleopa'tra.