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Updated: July 15, 2025
The emperor was the first to set out. At the head of one hundred thousand Germans, he opened a passage through Thrace in spite of the formal resistance of the Greeks, now governed by Isaac Angelus. He marched to Gallipolis, crossed the Dardanelles, and seized Iconium. He died in consequence of an imprudent bath in a river, which, it has been pretended, was the Cydnus.
Fulvia's character. Fulvia's influence over Antony. The sudden return. Change in Antony's character. His generosity. Funeral ceremonies of Brutus. Antony's movements. Antony's summons to Cleopatra. The messenger Dellius. Cleopatra resolves to go to Antony. Her preparations. Cleopatra enters the Cydnus. Her splendid barge. A scene of enchantment. Antony's invitation refused.
For Cleopatra was voyaging as though to war in much pomp, and escorted by a fleet of ships, among which her galley, built like a house and lined throughout with cedar and silken hangings, was the most beautiful and costly that the world has ever seen. But I went not on this vessel, and therefore it chanced that I did not see Cleopatra or Charmion till we landed at the mouth of the river Cydnus.
There were some circumstances which caused him to press forward with the utmost effort in approaching Tarsus, and, as the day was warm, he got very much overcome with heat and fatigue. In this state, he went and plunged suddenly into the River Cydnus to bathe. Now the Cydnus is a small stream, flowing by Tarsus, and it comes down from Mount Taurus at a short distance back from the city.
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