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TIL Cleopatra caught Mark Antony secretly having divers attach fish to his hook to impress her. She pretended not to notice, invited a crowd back the next day, then had her own diver attach a salted fish. Antony reeled it in to everyone’s laughter.
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Plutarch • Life of Antony

An English translation. All of Plutarch's Lives are onsite; in turn part of a very large site on classical Antiquity.