Octovian seems to have been the one who decided that Celopatra plotted to make Rome a province of Egypt, an idea very unlikely to have crossed her quick mind. He had on his side the familiar type, the scheming, spendthrift wife, for whom no diamond is large enough, no house spacious enough. As Europius put it centuries later, Antony began a war at the urging of the queen of Egypt, who “longed with womanly desire to reign in the city as well.” Already it was acknowledged “that the greatest wars have taken place on account of women.” Whole families had been ruined on their account. And already – the fault as ever on the sultry, sinuous, overtly subversive East – Egyptian women had caused their share of trouble. They were endowed with insatiable ardor and phenomenal sexual energy. One husband was not enough for them. They attracted and ruined men. Octavian only corralled the evidence. ~ Page 241
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