Cleopatra: What shall we do, Enobarbus?
Enobarbus: Think, and die.
In
Shakespeare's
play Antony and Cleopatra,
Enobarbus was a
high-ranking soldier in Mark Antony's
army, and a close friend of Antony.
He could see that Antony and Cleopatra's
relationship was
doomed. After Antony was
defeated at
Actium, Enobarbus
deserted
Antony for
Octavius. Enobarbus later committed suicide due
to his
remorse over having
betrayed Mark
Antony.
Here is Enobarbus's
description of Cleopatra's barge:
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes.
His full name was Domitius Enobarbus.