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because she didn't love him. True, but that's only a part of it. There are two schools of thought as to why Cleopatra spread the false rumor that she was dead. One is that she wanted to get rid of Antony so she could negotiate for herself with Octavian. So she sent a deliberate false message knowing that Antony would either flee Alexandria or commit suicide. Either way, he would be gone, leaving her free to try to use her charms on Octavian.
The other thinking is that there was no deliberate false message, but a hurried oral message. Antony was told by the messenger that Cleopatra was in her tomb. When he heard this, he assumed that she was dead.
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