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 238 ANTONY. for in his triumph there was carried a figure of Cleopatra, with an asp clinging to her. Such are the various accounts. But Cassar, though much disappointed by her death, yet could not but admire the greatness of her spirit, and gave order that her body should be buried by Antony with royal splendor and magnificence. Her women, also, received honorable burial by his directions. Cleopatra had Hved nine and thirty years, during twenty- two of which she had reigned as queen, and for fourteen had been Antony's jDartner in his empire. Antony, according to some authorities, was fifty-three, according to others, fifty-six years old. His statues were all thrown down, but those of Cleopatra were left untouched; for Archibius, one of her friends, gave Caesar two thousand talents to save them from the fate of Antony's. Antony left by his three wives seven children, of whom only Antyllus, the eldest, was put to death by Caesar; Octavia took the rest, and brought them up with her own. Cleopatra, his daughter by Cleopatra, was given in marriage to Juba, the most accomplished of kings ; and Antony, his son by Fulvia, attained such high favor, that whereas Agrippa was considered to hold the first place with Csesar, and the sons of Livia the second, the third, without disjDute, was possessed by Antony. Octavia, also, having had by her first husband, Marcellus, two daughters, and one son named Marcellus, this son Caesar adopted, and gave him his daughter in marriage ; as did Octavia one of the daughters to Agrippa. But Marcellus dying almost immediately after his marriage, she, perceiving that her brother was at a loss to find elsewhere any sure friend to be his son-in-law, was the first to recommend that Agrippa should put away her daughter and marry Julia. To this Caesar first, and then Agrippa himself, gave assent ; so Agrippa married Julia, and Octavia, receiving her daughter, married her to the young Antony