Mecenate talks about Cleopatra as a "triumphant lady".

Enobarbo answers that: "When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart, upon the river of Cydnus".

After this answer, the language rises from prose to poetry.

In these verses Enobarbo talks about Cleopatra, about her charm and her beauty.

For Enobarbo, Cleopatra isn't only a beautiful woman, but she is also a artwork of beauty. The reader can understand this because Enobarbo describes the space around her and people around her: " On each side her stood pretty dimpled boys, like similing cupids".