Vergilius had thought wisely of his temptation.

Fate rules them only who are too weak to rule themselves, and the great leash of fate is the power of evil women.

It was now to hasten the current of history in the old capital.
Salome sat with Manius in the great picture-room of her mother's palace.

Guests had left the banquet-hall and gone to their homes.

It was near the middle hour of the night and Herod's daughter was alone with the young assessor of Augustus.
"You shall choose," said she, "between the daughter and the son of Herod.