BOOK OF RITUALS
For they report also, that she had hidden
poyson in a hollow raser which she carried in the heare of her
head: and yet there was no marke seen of her bodie, or any signe
discerned that she was poisoned, neither also did they finde this
serpent in her tombe . . . Some say also, that they found two litle
pretie bytings in her arme, scant to be discerned . . . And thus
goeth the report of her death.
—Plutarch, translation by Sir Thomas North
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans