 Complete the following phrase:  Cleopatra did not immediately follow Antony in suicide. Instead, in a last-ditch effort, Cleopatra opened negotiations with Octavian. Cleopatra begged Octavian to spare Caesarions life in exchange for willing imprisonment. Octavian refused. Within a week, Octavian informed Cleopatra that she was to play a role in Octavians Triumph back in Rome. This role was carefully explained to her, while Caesarion was butchered without compunction. Octavian supposedly said two Caesars are one too many as he ordered Caesarions death. According to Strabo who was alive at the time of the event, Cleopatra died from a self-induced bite from a venomous snake, or from applying a poisonous ointment to herself. Learning of 