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Quotation from Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch
“But Cleopatra was busied in making a collection of all varieties of poisonous drugs, and, in order to see which of them were the least painful in the operation, she had them tried upon prisoners condemned to die”
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Antony, trans. John Dryden et al., rev. A. H. Clough (1864)
Plutarch’s account of Cleopatra’s experiments with poisons before the end in Alexandria.
Citation: "But Cleopatra was busied in making a collection of all varieties of poisonous drugs, and, in order to see which of them were the least painful in the operation, she had them tried upon prisoners condemned to die" — Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Antony, trans. John Dryden et al., rev. A. H. Clough (1864). (id plutarch-lives-q12)
