aside from casual criticisms of cleopatra's extravagant lifestyle and corruption of simple antony with her opulence, she was also said by some roman authors to have resorted to witchcraft as a lethal sorceress. she not only toyed with the idea of poisoning many, antony included, but also intended to conquer and punish rome itself. she a woman as dangerous as homer's helen of troy in toppling the order of civilization. antony was generally viewed as having lost his judgment, brainwashed by cleopatra's magic spells. antony's supporters rebutted with tales of octavian's wild and promiscuous sex life, while graffiti now often appeared slandering either side as being sexually obscene. cleopatra had a conveniently timed sibylline oracle claim that rome would be punished but that peace and reconciliation would follow in a golden age led by the queen. in an account of lucius munatius plancus, preserved in horace's "satires", cleopatra was said to have made a bet that she could spend 2.5 million drachmas in a single evening. she proved it by removing a pearl, one of the most expensive known, from one of her earrings and dissolving it in vinegar at her dinner party. the accusation that antony had stolen the books of the library of pergamon to restock the library of alexandria, however, was an admitted fabrication by gaius calvisius sabinus. he may have been the source of many other slanders of antony in support of octavian's side.