Secondo libro dei Maccabei 5

NOVA VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Circa hoc autem tempus Anti ochus secundam profectionem paravit inAegyptum.	1 At about this time, Antiochus was preparing for his second attack on Egypt.
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	2 It then happened that al over the city for nearly forty days there were apparitions of horsemengalloping through the air in cloth of gold, troops of lancers ful y armed,
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.	3 squadrons of cavalry in order of battle, attacks and charges this way and that, a flourish of shields, aforest of pikes, a brandishing of swords, a hurling of missiles, a glittering of golden accoutrements and armour of al kinds.
4 Quapropter omnes rogabant pro bono factam esseostensionem.	4 So everyone prayed that this manifestation might prove a good omen.
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.	5 Then, on the strength of a false report that Antiochus was dead, Jason took at least a thousand menand launched an unexpected attack on the city. When the wal s had been breached and the city was final y onthe point of being taken, Menelaus took refuge in the Citadel.
6 Iason vero caedes civium suorum perpetrabat nulliparcens, non intellegens prosperitatem adversum cognatos calamitatem essemaximam, arbitrans autem hostium et non civium se trophaea constituere.	6 Jason, however, made a pitiless slaughter of his fel ow-citizens, oblivious of the fact that successagainst his own countrymen was the greatest of disasters, but rather picturing himself as winning trophies fromsome enemy, and not from his fel ow- countrymen.
7 Etprincipatum quidem non obtinuit, finem vero insidiarum suarum confusionemadeptus, profugus iterum abiit in Ammanitidem.	7 Even so, he did not manage to seize power; and, in the end, his machinations brought him nothing butshame, and he took refuge once more in Ammanitis.
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.	8 His career of wickedness was thus brought to a halt: imprisoned by Aretas, the Arab despot, escapingfrom his town, hunted by everyone, detested for having overthrown the laws, abhorred as the butcher of hiscountry and his countrymen, he drifted to Egypt.
9 Et, quimultos de patria expulerat, peregre periit ad Lacedaemonios pervectus, quasi procognatione habiturus protectionem;	9 He who had exiled so many from their fatherland, himself perished on foreign soil, having travel ed toSparta, hoping that, for kinship's sake, he might find harbour there.
10 et, qui insepultos multos abiecerat, ipseillamentatus permansit nec exsequiis ullis neque patrio sepulcro participavit.	10 So many carcases he had thrust out to lie unburied; now he himself had none to mourn him, nofuneral rites, no place in the tomb of his ancestors.
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	11 When the king came to hear of what had happened, he concluded that Judaea was in revolt. Hetherefore marched from Egypt, raging like a wild beast, and began by storming the city.
12 et iussit militibus interficereoccursantes nemini parcendo et eos, qui in domos ascenderent, trucidare.	12 He then ordered his soldiers to cut down without mercy everyone they encountered, and to butcher allwho took refuge in their houses.
13 Fiebant ergo iuvenum ac seniorum caedes, mulierum et natorum exterminiumvirginumque et parvulorum neces.	13 It was a massacre of young and old, a slaughter of women and children, a butchery of young girls andinfants.
14 Erant autem toto triduo octoginta miliaperditi, quadraginta quidem milia in ipso manuum conflictu; non minus autem quamqui iugulati fuerant, venumdati sunt.	14 There were eighty thousand victims in the course of those three days, forty thousand dying byviolence and as many again being sold into slavery.
15 Non contentus autem his, ausus estintrare templum universae terrae sanctissimum, ducem habens Menelaum, qui legumet patriae fuit proditor,	15 Not content with this, he had the audacity to enter the holiest Temple in the entire world, withMenelaus, that traitor to the laws and to his country, as his guide;
16 et scelestis manibus sumens sancta vasa et, quae abaliis regibus et civitatibus erant posita ad augmentum et gloriam loci ethonorem, profanis manibus contrectans.	16 with impure hands he seized the sacred vessels; with impious hands he seized the offeringspresented by other kings for the aggrandisement, glory and dignity of the holy place.
17 Ita extollebatur mente Antiochus nonconsiderans quod propter peccata habitantium civitatem modicum Dominus fueratiratus; propter quod accidit circa locum despectio.	17 Holding so high an opinion of himself, Antiochus did not realise that the Lord was temporarily angry atthe sins of the inhabitants of the city, hence his unconcern for the holy place.
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.	18 Had they not been entangled in many sins, Antiochus too, like Heliodorus when King Seleucus senthim to inspect the Treasury, would have been flogged the moment he arrived and checked in his presumption.
19 Verum non propter locum gentem, sed proptergentem locum Dominus elegit.	19 The Lord, however, had not chosen the people for the sake of the holy place, but the holy place forthe sake of the people;
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.	20 and so the holy place itself, having shared the disasters that befel the people, in due course alsoshared their good fortune; having been abandoned by the Almighty in his anger, once the great Sovereign wasplacated it was reinstated in al its glory.
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.	21 Antiochus, having extracted eighteen hundred talents from the Temple, hurried back to Antioch; in hispride he would have undertaken to make the dry land navigable and the sea passable on foot, so high hisarrogance soared.
22 Reliquitautem et praepositos ad affligendam gentem: Hierosolymis quidem Philippum,genere Phrygem, moribus barbariorem eo ipso, a quo constitutus est;	22 But he left officials behind to plague the nation: in Jerusalem, Philip, a Phrygian by race, and bynature more barbarous than the man who appointed him;
23 inGarizim autem Andronicum; praeter autem hos Menelaum, qui gravius quam ceteriimminebat civibus.	23 on Mount Gerizim, Andronicus; and, besides these, Menelaus, who lorded it over his countrymenworse than al the others. In his rooted hostility to the Jews,
24 Misit autem Apollonium Mysarcham cum exercitu — vigintivero et duo milia virorum — praecipiens omnes perfectae aetatis interficere,mulieres autem ac iuniores vendere.	24 the king also sent the Mysarch Apollonius at the head of an army twenty-two thousand strong, withorders to put to death al men in their prime and to sel the women and children.
25 Qui cum venisset Hierosolymam etpacificum se simulasset, quievit usque ad diem sanctum sabbati et, cumcomprehenderet feriatos Iudaeos, arma capere suis praecepit;	25 Arriving in Jerusalem and posing as a man of peace, this man waited until the holy day of the Sabbathand then, taking advantage of the Jews as they rested from work, ordered his men to parade ful y armed;
26 omnesque, qui adspectaculum processerant, trucidavit et civitatem cum armatis discurrensingentem multitudinem peremit.	26 al those who came out to watch he put to the sword; then, rushing into the city with his armed troops,he cut down an immense number of people.
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.	27 Judas, also known as Maccabaeus, however, with about nine others, withdrew into the desert. Helived like the wild animals in the hil s with his companions, eating nothing but wild plants to avoid contractingdefilement.