And the Cicero, the famed orator and legendary Roman statesman, really didn't like Cleopatra.

And I've touched on this brief story before in one of the first episodes on Cleopatra,

but it's worth expansion here with some additional details.

Cicero thought Cleopatra was, and I think the words I used before were, parents hears where you cover your kids ears,

Cicero thought Cleopatra was a haughty and arrogant bitch, and the story that follows will explain why. Now at the time of

this occurrence Cleopatra was in Rome and she was holding court with many of the

most influential Romans of the time, and Cicero obviously being one of them.

Cicero, for his part, was about 60 years old, and of course, as we've said, a legend in his own lifetime.

But it is said that Cicero basically had two modes of operation

and we all know people like this.

He was either pleasant or he was a prick. And it seems that in the

case of Cleopatra he was both of these things and in the order that I just

mentioned. First pleasant, then a prick. The story goes that,

Cicero had apparently written to or communicated with Cleopatra while she was still in Egypt and getting ready to sail for Rome.

And he had requested that she bring some book that was housed in the library at Alexandria

to Rome with her so that he could then get the book from her and read it.

But lo and behold, once Cicero came to visit with Cleopatra after she arrived in Rome, he found that she had forgotten to bring the book with her.

And times were obviously different back then. Cleopatra forgetting the book meant that

Cicero would most likely never get his hands on it, or at least would have great difficulty in doing so afterward.

And thus, Cicero, after this event, was eternally salty toward Cleopatra.

And most sources that reference this event state that it wasn't that she had actually

forgotten the book that made him salty toward Cleopatra.

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