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I wish I'd been here for this conversation even if my opinion of a lot of the contemporary historians is that they tended to have deep personal biases. Also, I'm probably misremembering but wasn't Dio pro-Octavian? IRL Alphinaud's personal propaganda machine called Cleopatra all kinds of shit, including a sorceress, to explain how former all-Roman victorious general Marcus Antonius became an Eastaboo simp and was trying to set up monarchies for his kids.