# Canidius — Cleopatra character guide

> Canidius in Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0035-vi-of-the-workings-of-the-learned-olympus-at-memphis-of-the-poisonings-of-cleopatra-of-the-speech-of-antony-to-his-captains-and-of-the-passing-of-isis-from-the-land-of-khem

## Who they are

Roman general loyal to Antony.

## In the story

### [IV: Of the Meeting of Charmion with the Learned Olympus; Of Her Speech with Him; Of the Coming of Olympus Into the Presence of Cleopatra; and of the Commands of Cleopatra](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cleopatra_se/chapters/iv-of-the-meeting-of-charmion-with-the-learned-olympus-of-her-speech-with-him-of-the-coming-of-olympus-into-the-presence-of-cleopatra-and-of-the-commands-of-cleopatra)

Mentioned as the general who brought news that Antony's army in Greece had surrendered to Octavian.

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