[142] Plutarch tells us that this doctor wrote a full account of these last scenes, from which he evidently quotes.
[143] Dion Cassius.
[144] Octavian now always spoke of the Dictator as his father, and he called himself “Cæsar.”
[145] Plutarch. It is very probable that Cleopatra’s doctor, Olympus, was by her side, and afterwards wrote these words down in the diary which we know Plutarch used.
[146] The following evidence as to the manner of the Queen’s death is given by Plutarch, and it is clear that it was the result of an investigation such as I have described.
[148] In hieroglyphs this reads Aut’k’r’d’r K’s’r’s.
[149] Strabo, xvii. i. 14; Tacitus, Hist. i. 11.
[150] This was said to have been due to a bribe received from one of Cleopatra’s friends, but it was more probably political.