2 Maccabees 5

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1 About this time Antiochus made his second invasion of Egypt.	1 Circa hoc autem tempus Anti ochus secundam profectionem paravit inAegyptum.
2 And it happened that over all the city, for almost forty days, there appeared golden-clad horsemen charging through the air, in companies fully armed with lances and drawn swords--	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 troops of horsemen drawn up, attacks and counterattacks made on this side and on that, brandishing of shields, massing of spears, hurling of missiles, the flash of golden trappings, and armor of all sorts.	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 men prayed that the apparition might prove to have been a good omen.	4 Quapropter omnes rogabant pro bono factam esseostensionem.
5 When a false rumor arose that Antiochus was dead, Jason took no less than a thousand men and suddenly made an assault upon the city. When the troops upon the wall had been forced back and at last the city was 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 But Jason kept relentlessly slaughtering his fellow citizens, not realizing that success at the cost of one's kindred is the greatest misfortune, but imagining that he was setting up trophies of victory over enemies and not over 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 He did not gain control of the government, however; and in the end got only disgrace from his conspiracy, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.	7 Etprincipatum quidem non obtinuit, finem vero insidiarum suarum confusionemadeptus, profugus iterum abiit in Ammanitidem.
8 Finally he met a miserable end. Accused before Aretas the ruler of the Arabs, fleeing from city to city, pursued by all men, hated as a rebel against the laws, and abhorred as the executioner of his country and his fellow citizens, he was cast ashore in 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 and he who had driven many from their own country into exile died in exile, having embarked to go to the Lacedaemonians in hope of finding protection because of their kinship.	9 Et, quimultos de patria expulerat, peregre periit ad Lacedaemonios pervectus, quasi procognatione habiturus protectionem;
10 He who had cast out many to lie unburied had no one to mourn for him; he had no funeral of any sort and no place in the tomb of his fathers.	10 et, qui insepultos multos abiecerat, ipseillamentatus permansit nec exsequiis ullis neque patrio sepulcro participavit.
11 When news of what had happened reached the king, he took it to mean that Judea was in revolt. So, raging inwardly, he left Egypt and took the city 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 And he commanded his soldiers to cut down relentlessly every one they met and to slay those who went into the houses.	12 et iussit militibus interficereoccursantes nemini parcendo et eos, qui in domos ascenderent, trucidare.
13 Then there was killing of young and old, destruction of boys, women, and children, and slaughter of virgins and infants.	13 Fiebant ergo iuvenum ac seniorum caedes, mulierum et natorum exterminiumvirginumque et parvulorum neces.
14 Within the total of three days eighty thousand were destroyed, forty thousand in hand-to-hand fighting; and as many were sold into slavery as were slain.	14 Erant autem toto triduo octoginta miliaperditi, quadraginta quidem milia in ipso manuum conflictu; non minus autem quamqui iugulati fuerant, venumdati sunt.
15 Not content with this, Antiochus dared to enter the most holy temple in all the world, guided by Menelaus, who had become a traitor both to the laws and to his country.	15 Non contentus autem his, ausus estintrare templum universae terrae sanctissimum, ducem habens Menelaum, qui legumet patriae fuit proditor,
16 He took the holy vessels with his polluted hands, and swept away with profane hands the votive offerings which other kings had made to enhance the glory and 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 Antiochus was elated in spirit, and did not perceive that the Lord was angered for a little while because of the sins of those who dwelt in the city, and that therefore he was disregarding the holy place.	17 Ita extollebatur mente Antiochus nonconsiderans quod propter peccata habitantium civitatem modicum Dominus fueratiratus; propter quod accidit circa locum despectio.
18 But if it had not happened that they were involved in many sins, this man would have been scourged and turned back from his rash act as soon as he came forward, just as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to inspect the treasury.	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 But the Lord did not choose the nation for the sake of the holy place, but the place for the sake of the nation.	19 Verum non propter locum gentem, sed proptergentem locum Dominus elegit.
20 Therefore the place itself shared in the misfortunes that befell the nation and afterward participated in its benefits; and what was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty was restored again in all its glory when the great Lord 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 So Antiochus carried off eighteen hundred talents from the temple, and hurried away to Antioch, thinking in his arrogance that he could sail on the land and walk on the sea, because his mind was elated.	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 And he left governors to afflict the people: at Jerusalem, Philip, by birth a Phrygian and in character more barbarous 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 and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these Menelaus, who lorded it over his fellow citizens worse than the others did. In his malice toward the Jewish citizens,	23 inGarizim autem Andronicum; praeter autem hos Menelaum, qui gravius quam ceteriimminebat civibus.
24 Antiochus sent Apollonius, the captain of the Mysians, with an army of twenty-two thousand, and commanded him to slay all the grown men and to sell the women and boys as slaves.	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 peaceably disposed and waited until the holy sabbath day; then, finding the Jews not at work, he ordered his men to parade under arms.	25 Qui cum venisset Hierosolymam etpacificum se simulasset, quievit usque ad diem sanctum sabbati et, cumcomprehenderet feriatos Iudaeos, arma capere suis praecepit;
26 He put to the sword all those who came out to see them, then rushed into the city with his armed men and killed great numbers of people.	26 omnesque, qui adspectaculum processerant, trucidavit et civitatem cum armatis discurrensingentem multitudinem peremit.
27 But Judas Maccabeus, with about nine others, got away to the wilderness, and kept himself and his companions alive in the mountains as wild animals do; they continued to live on what grew wild, so that they might not share in 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.