by their respective tutors, who themselves suffered for their perfidy shortly after.  As for the rest of Cleopa’tra’s children, he treated them with great gentleness, leaving them to the care of those who were intrusted with their education, to whom he gave orders to provide them with every thing suitable to their birth. 29.  Cleopa’tra, being recovered, Augus’tus visited her in person:  she received him lying on a couch; but, upon his entering the apartment, rose up, habited in a loose robe, and prostrated herself before him.  Her misfortunes had given an air of severity to her features; her hair was dishevelled, her voice trembling, her complexion pale, and her eyes swollen with weeping; yet, still, her natural beauty seemed to gleam through the distresses that surrounded her; and the grace of her motions, and the alluring softness of her looks, still bore testimony to the former power of her charms. 30.  Augus’tus raised her with his usual complaisance, and, desiring her to sit, placed himself beside her. 31.  Cleopa’tra had been prepared for this interview, and made use of every art to propitiate the conqueror.  She tried apologies, entreaties and allurements, to obtain his favour and soften his resentment.  She began by attempting to justify her conduct; but when her skill failed against manifest proofs, she turned her defence into supplications.  She reminded him of Caesar’s humanity to those in distress; she read some of his letters to her, full of tenderness, and expatiated upon the intimacy that subsisted between them.  “But of what service,” cried she, “are now all his benefits to me!  Why did I not die with him!  Yet, still he lives—­methinks I see him still before me! he revives in you.” 32.  Augus’tus, who was no stranger to this method of address, remained firm against all attacks; answering with a cold indifference which obliged her to give her attempts a different turn. 33.  She now addressed his avarice, presenting him with an inventory of her treasure and jewels.  This gave occasion to a very singular scene, that may serve to show that the little decorums of breeding were then by no means attended to as in modern times. 34.  One of her stewards having alleged, that the inventory was defective, and that she had secreted a part of her effects, she fell into the most extravagant passion, started from her couch, and snatching him by the hair, gave him repeated blows on the face.  Augus’tus, smiling at her indignation, led her to the couch, and desired her to be pacified.  To this she replied, that it was insufferable to be insulted in the presence of one whom she so highly esteemed.  “And admitting,” cried she, “that I have secreted a few ornaments, am I to blame, when they are reserved, not for myself, but for Liv’ia and Octa’via, whom I hope to make my intercessors with you?” 35.  The apology, which intimated a desire of living, was not disagreeable to Augustus, who politely assured her she was at liberty to keep whatever she had reserved, and that in everything she should be