2This man had longer interviews with Cleopatra than the rest, and was conspicuously honoured by her, so that he roused suspicion in Antony, who seized him and gave him a flogging, and then sent him back to Caesar with a written message stating that Thyrsus, by his insolent and haughty airs, had irritated him, at a time when misfortunes made him easily irritated. “But if thou dost not like the thing,” he said, “thou hast my freedman Hipparchus;58See chapter lxvii. 7. hang him up and give him a flogging, and we shall be quits.”
Notes
[58] See chapter lxvii. 7.