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Believing what Cleopatra's servants had told him, Antony went to his room exclaiming he would soon be with her. First, he ordered his servant Eros to kill him, but Eros killed himself. Then Antony stabbed himself in the stomach and passed out. When he woke up, one of Cleopatra's servants told Antony that Cleopatra wanted to see him. Happy to hear she was alive, he got servants to carry him to her.
Once they arrived at the mausoleum, Cleopatra was afraid to open the door because of Octavian's approaching army. So they let him in through the window. Cleopatra then laid him in her lap and cradled his head, crying over her husband. Antony told her not to weep, but to rejoice in his past happiness than his present pain. Then he told her he had always conquered as a Roman, and it was only by a Roman that he was conquered. There, he died in Cleopatra's arms.