1 Esdras 4:30

30 and take the crown from the king's head and put it on her own, and slap the king with her left hand.

1 Esdras 4:30 In-Context

28 And now do you not believe me? "Is not the king great in his power? Do not all lands fear to touch him?

29 Yet I have seen him with Apame, the king's concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Bartacus; she would sit at the king's right hand

30 and take the crown from the king's head and put it on her own, and slap the king with her left hand.

31 At this the king would gaze at her with mouth agape. If she smiles at him, he laughs; if she loses her temper with him, he flatters her, so that she may be reconciled to him.

32 Gentlemen, why are not women strong, since they do such things?"