 While Atia is ecstatic at finally being reunited with Antony, on her arrival she is heartbroken when Antony refuses even to allow her and Octavia entrance, let alone to see her.Atia returns with Octavia to Rome (along with the stowaways Jocasta and Posca), angry at her son's for having deliberately sent her on a mission he knew would end in her humiliation (and, indeed, was his plan all along, as well as now being able to tell all of Rome that Antony has rejected his Roman wife in favour of his Egyptian lover).Her illusions finally shattered, Atia demands that Octavian destroy Antony and Cleopatra, which he is now free to do, mainly because Posca has brought back with him Antony's last will and testament containing the shocking repudiation of his Roman homeland, bequeathing his country to his “wife” Cleopatra and their Egyptian children.