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Does anyone know the original Roman source for this reference to Cleopatra’s supposed sadistic habit of poking gold pins into breasts? I’ve been searching Strabo, Plutarch, and Dio and have yet to find this reference. The only thing anywhere close to it I can find is that she tested poisons and snake venoms on prisoners condemned to death, but that not out of sadistic delight but rather to determine which would be most painless for use in suicide. If anybody can post a legitimate historical account of this, I’d like to see it.