2 Maccabees 5

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1 About this time Antiochus sent his second expedition into Egypt.	1 Circa hoc autem tempus Anti ochus secundam profectionem paravit inAegyptum.
2 It then happened that all over the city, for nearly forty days, there appeared horsemen charging in midair, clad in garments interwoven with gold--companies fully armed with lances	2 Contigit autem per universam civitatem fere per dies quadragintavideri per aera equites discurrentes, auratas stolas habentes et hastas, admodum cohortium armatos, et gladiorum evaginationes
3 and drawn swords; squadrons of cavalry in battle array, charges and countercharges on this side and that, with brandished shields and bristling spears, flights of arrows and flashes of gold ornaments, together with armor of every sort.	3 et turmas equorum perordinem digestas et congressiones fieri et decursus utrorumque et scutorum motuset contorum multitudinem et telorum iactus et aureorum ornamentorum fulgoresomnisque generis loricationes.
4 Therefore all prayed that this vision might be a good omen.	4 Quapropter omnes rogabant pro bono factam esseostensionem.
5 But when a false rumor circulated that Antiochus was dead, Jason gathered fully a thousand men and suddenly attacked the city. As the defenders on the walls were forced back and the city was finally being taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel.	5 Sed cum falsus rumor exisset, tamquam vita excessisset Antiochus, assumptisIason non minus mille viris repente aggressus est civitatem; illis autem, quierant in muro, compulsis in fugam et ad ultimum iam apprehensa civitate,Menelaus fugit in arcem.
6 Jason then slaughtered his fellow citizens without mercy, not realizing that triumph over one's own kindred was the greatest failure, but imagining that he was winning a victory over his enemies, not his fellow countrymen.	6 Iason vero caedes civium suorum perpetrabat nulliparcens, non intellegens prosperitatem adversum cognatos calamitatem essemaximam, arbitrans autem hostium et non civium se trophaea constituere.
7 Even so, he did not gain control of the government, but in the end received only disgrace for his treachery, and once again took refuge in the country of the Ammonites.	7 Etprincipatum quidem non obtinuit, finem vero insidiarum suarum confusionemadeptus, profugus iterum abiit in Ammanitidem.
8 At length he met a miserable end. Called to account before Aretas, king of the Arabs, he fled from city to city, hunted by all men, hated as a transgressor of the laws, abhorred as the butcher of his country and his countrymen. After being driven into Egypt,	8 Ad ultimum igitur malamreversionem sortitus est; conclusus apud Aretam Arabum tyrannum, fugiens decivitate in civitatem, expulsus ab omnibus, odiosus ut refuga legum etexsecrabilis ut patriae et civium carnifex in Aegyptum extrusus est.
9 he crossed the sea to the Spartans, among whom he hoped to find protection because of his relations with them. There he who had exiled so many from their country perished in exile;	9 Et, quimultos de patria expulerat, peregre periit ad Lacedaemonios pervectus, quasi procognatione habiturus protectionem;
10 and he who had cast out so many to lie unburied went unmourned himself with no funeral of any kind or any place in the tomb of his ancestors.	10 et, qui insepultos multos abiecerat, ipseillamentatus permansit nec exsequiis ullis neque patrio sepulcro participavit.
11 When these happenings were reported to the king, he thought that Judea was in revolt. Raging like a wild animal, he set out from Egypt and took Jerusalem by storm.	11 Cum autem nuntia ad regem pervenissent de his, quae gesta erant, suspicatusest rex a societate defecturam Iudaeam; et ob hoc profectus ex Aegypto efferatusanimo, civitatem quidem armis cepit
12 He ordered his soldiers to cut down without mercy those whom they met and to slay those who took refuge in their houses.	12 et iussit militibus interficereoccursantes nemini parcendo et eos, qui in domos ascenderent, trucidare.
13 There was a massacre of young and old, a killing of women and children, a slaughter of virgins and infants.	13 Fiebant ergo iuvenum ac seniorum caedes, mulierum et natorum exterminiumvirginumque et parvulorum neces.
14 In the space of three days, eighty thousand were lost, forty thousand meeting a violent death, and the same number being sold into slavery.	14 Erant autem toto triduo octoginta miliaperditi, quadraginta quidem milia in ipso manuum conflictu; non minus autem quamqui iugulati fuerant, venumdati sunt.
15 Not satisfied with this, the king dared to enter the holiest temple in the world; Menelaus, that traitor both to the laws and to his country, served as guide.	15 Non contentus autem his, ausus estintrare templum universae terrae sanctissimum, ducem habens Menelaum, qui legumet patriae fuit proditor,
16 He laid his impure hands on the sacred vessels and gathered up with profane hands the votive offerings made by other kings for the advancement, the glory, and the honor of the Place.	16 et scelestis manibus sumens sancta vasa et, quae abaliis regibus et civitatibus erant posita ad augmentum et gloriam loci ethonorem, profanis manibus contrectans.
17 Puffed up in spirit, Antiochus did not realize that it was because of the sins of the city's inhabitants that the Lord was angry for a little while and hence disregarded the holy Place.	17 Ita extollebatur mente Antiochus nonconsiderans quod propter peccata habitantium civitatem modicum Dominus fueratiratus; propter quod accidit circa locum despectio.
18 If they had not become entangled in so many sins, this man, like Heliodorus, who was sent by King Seleucus to inspect the treasury, would have been flogged and turned back from his presumptuous action as soon as he approached.	18 Alioquin nisi contigisseteos multis peccatis esse involutos, sicut Heliodorus, qui missus est a Seleucorege ad inspectionem aerarii, et ipse, mox ut accessisset, confestim flagellatusrepulsus fuisset ab audacia.
19 The Lord, however, had not chosen the people for the sake of the Place, but the Place for the sake of the people.	19 Verum non propter locum gentem, sed proptergentem locum Dominus elegit.
20 Therefore, the Place itself, having shared in the people's misfortunes, afterward participated in their good fortune; and what the Almighty had forsaken in his anger was restored in all its glory, once the great Sovereign became reconciled.	20 Ideoque et ipse locus particeps factus populimalorum, postea factus est socius beneficiorum; et, qui derelictus in iraOmnipotentis est, iterum in magni Domini reconciliatione cum omni gloriarestitutus est.
21 Antiochus carried off eighteen hundred talents from the temple, and hurried back to Antioch. In his arrogance he planned to make the land navigable and the sea passable on foot, so carried away was he with pride.	21 Igitur Antiochus mille et octingentis ablatis de templo talentis, velociusAntiochiam regressus est, existimans se prae superbia terram ad navigandum,pelagus vero ad ambulandum deducturum propter mentis elationem.
22 But he left governors to harass the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, a Phrygian by birth, and in character more cruel than the man who appointed him;	22 Reliquitautem et praepositos ad affligendam gentem: Hierosolymis quidem Philippum,genere Phrygem, moribus barbariorem eo ipso, a quo constitutus est;
23 at Mount Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who lorded it over his fellow citizens worse than the others did. Out of hatred for the Jewish citizens,	23 inGarizim autem Andronicum; praeter autem hos Menelaum, qui gravius quam ceteriimminebat civibus.
24 the king sent Appollonius, commander of the Mysians, at the head of an army of twenty-two thousand men, with orders to kill all the grown men and sell the women and young men into slavery.	24 Misit autem Apollonium Mysarcham cum exercitu — vigintivero et duo milia virorum — praecipiens omnes perfectae aetatis interficere,mulieres autem ac iuniores vendere.
25 When this man arrived in Jerusalem, he pretended to be peacefully disposed and waited until the holy day of the sabbath; then, finding the Jews refraining from work, he ordered his men to parade fully armed.	25 Qui cum venisset Hierosolymam etpacificum se simulasset, quievit usque ad diem sanctum sabbati et, cumcomprehenderet feriatos Iudaeos, arma capere suis praecepit;
26 All those who came out to watch, he massacred, and running through the city with armed men, he cut down a large number of people.	26 omnesque, qui adspectaculum processerant, trucidavit et civitatem cum armatis discurrensingentem multitudinem peremit.
27 But Judas Maccabeus and about nine others withdrew to the wilderness, where he and his companions lived like wild animals in the hills, continuing to eat what grew wild to avoid sharing the defilement.	27 Iudas autem, qui et Maccabaeus, decimus factussecesserat in eremum et ferarum more in montibus vitam cum suis agebat; et fenicibo vescentes demorabantur, ne participes essent coinquinationis.