The Roman historian Sextus Aurelius Victor, negatively nastroennny to Cleopatra, writes about her: "She was so dissolute that often prostituted, and possessed of such beauty that many men of his death, having paid for it in one night." However, to Roman sources, describing cleopatra should not be treated withconfidence, because cleopatra in the eyes of the Romans was the enemy, and ancient historiography was inspired by cleopatra Cleopatra's winner, the emperor Octavian Augustus, did not want her idealization.