It is enough: the power of Salome, By all acknowledged, and by all obeyed, On its firm basis stands immovable: I fled to Azor, with the lightning's speed, Even from Samaria's plain to Jordan's spring, And quick returned: my presence there indeed Was needful, to cut off the aspiring...
"Mariamne" de Voltaire. crivain et philosophe fran ais, nom de plume de Fran ois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778).