Noon
After them marched heralds enjoining silence -LRB- at which the population sung and shouted all the more loudly -RRB- , and crying that Cleopatra , the Queen , was coming . Then followed a thousand Cilician skirmishers , a thousand Thracians , a thousand Macedonians , and a thousand Gauls , each armed after the fashion of their country . Then passed five hundred men of those who are called the Fenced Horsemen , for both men and horses were altogether covered with mail . Next came youths and maidens sumptuously draped and wearing golden crowns , and with them images symbolising Day and Night , Morning and Noon , the Heavens and the Earth . After these walked many fair women , pouring perfumes on the road , and others scattering blooming flowers . Now there rose a great shout of `` Cleopatra ! Cleopatra ! ''