Cleopatra Was Pranking Mark Antony 2,000 Years Ago 😭

Alexandria, around 40 BC. Mark Antony goes fishing with Cleopatra and catches nothing… so he secretly sends his fishermen to dive and hang fish on his hook. Cleopatra spots the trick, praises him, and invites her friends to watch him fish again the next day. Then her own diver gets there first and ties a salted fish from the Black Sea onto his hook. 😭
Her verdict, as Plutarch tells it: leave the fishing rod to the fishermen of Egypt, your catch is cities, kingdoms and continents.

Source: Plutarch, Life of Antony, chapter 29 (Loeb translation by Bernadotte Perrin, 1920).

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