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Mark Antony
Mark Antony, detail of a marble bust; in the Vatican Museum.
Following his defeat by Octavian at the Battle of Actium, Mark Antony fled to Alexandria to join Cleopatra. When Octavian arrived in the city in the summer of 30 BCE, Antony committed suicide, followed shortly thereafter by Cleopatra.12