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After Caesar's murder she was summoned to Anthony in Tarsus in Cilicia. She was 28 years old and considered the perfection of beauty. She and Anthony spent the winter in Alexandria and at the end of that year he went back to Rome to marry Octavia, the sister of Octavian, but soon returned to Cleopatra who met him in Syria ( 36 BC) and went with him on his march to the Euphrates. From this time is usual home was with her in Alexandria, but his cost him in Rome. It was at Cleopatra's insistence that he risked the great sea battle of Actium and when she fled with 60 ships he followed her. Octavian won the battle and went to Alexandria he met with Cleopatra in private. Anthony had been told she killed herself, but the report was false, and he killed himself with his sword. He was carried dying to Cleopatra and died in her arms. Finding that she could defeat Octavian and his triumph in Rome she took poison.

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