Cleopatra sends Caesar word that she wishes to die. Caesar visits her at the monument, to tell her that she will be spared if she submits to share her rule of Egypt. If she kills herself, he has promised to destroy her heirs. Cleopatra learns that Caesar will take her with him to Rome in three days' time; she imagines that she and Antony will be humiliated and mocked on Roman stages. She prepares for her suicide: she eats poisoned figs, and a clown brings a snake. Iras kisses her and dies from the poison she has drunk. She holds the asp to her breast, puts another to her arm, and dies from the bites. Charmian kills herself. Caesar returns and orders for Cleopatra to be buried next to Antony.
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