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how did cleopatra die?

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killed. suicide.

Cleopatra places the poisonous asp at her breast and allows herself to be bitten.

"[To an asp, which she applies to her breast]

With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate

Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool 355

Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak,

That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass

Unpolicied!"

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Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra