Secondo libro dei Maccabei 5

NOVA VULGATA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Circa hoc autem tempus Anti ochus secundam profectionem paravit inAegyptum.	1 At the same time Antiochus prepared for a second journey into 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 And it came to pass that through the whole city of Jerusalem for the space of forty days there were seen horsemen running in the air, in gilded raiment, and armed with spears, like bands of soldiers.
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 And horses set in order by ranks, running one against another, with the shakings of shields, and a multitude of men in helmets, with drawn swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden armour, and of harnesses of all sorts.
4 Quapropter omnes rogabant pro bono factam esseostensionem.	4 Wherefore all men prayed that these prodigies might turn to good.
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 Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though Antiochus had been dead, Jason taking with him no fewer than a thousand men, suddenly assaulted the city: and though the citizens ran together to the wall, the city at length was taken, and Menelaus fled into the castle.
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 But Jason slew his countrymen without mercy, not considering that prosperity against one's own kindred is a very great evil, thinking they had been enemies, and not citizens, whom he conquered.
7 Etprincipatum quidem non obtinuit, finem vero insidiarum suarum confusionemadeptus, profugus iterum abiit in Ammanitidem.	7 Yet he did not gee the principality, but received confusion at tile end, for the reward of his treachery, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.
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 At the last having been shut up by Aretas the king of the Arabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated by all men, as a forsaker of the laws, and execrable, as an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt:
9 Et, quimultos de patria expulerat, peregre periit ad Lacedaemonios pervectus, quasi procognatione habiturus protectionem;	9 And he that had driven many out of their country, perished in a strange land, going to Lacedemon, as if for kindred sake he should have refuge there:
10 et, qui insepultos multos abiecerat, ipseillamentatus permansit nec exsequiis ullis neque patrio sepulcro participavit.	10 But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers.
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 Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms.
12 et iussit militibus interficereoccursantes nemini parcendo et eos, qui in domos ascenderent, trucidare.	12 And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came in their way, and to go up into the houses slay.
13 Fiebant ergo iuvenum ac seniorum caedes, mulierum et natorum exterminiumvirginumque et parvulorum neces.	13 Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, a destruction of women children, and killing of virgins and infants.
14 Erant autem toto triduo octoginta miliaperditi, quadraginta quidem milia in ipso manuum conflictu; non minus autem quamqui iugulati fuerant, venumdati sunt.	14 And there were slain in the space o three whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold.
15 Non contentus autem his, ausus estintrare templum universae terrae sanctissimum, ducem habens Menelaum, qui legumet patriae fuit proditor,	15 But this was not enough; he presumed also to enter into the temple, the most holy in all the world, Menelaus, that traitor to the laws, and to his country, being 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 And taking in his wicked hands the holy vessels, which were given by other kings and cities, for the ornament and the glory of the place, he unworthily handled and profaned them.
17 Ita extollebatur mente Antiochus nonconsiderans quod propter peccata habitantium civitatem modicum Dominus fueratiratus; propter quod accidit circa locum despectio.	17 Thus Antiochus going astray in mind, did not consider that God was angry for a while, because of the sins of the habitants of the city: and therefore contempt had happened to the 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 Otherwise had they not been involved in many sins, as Heliodorus, who was sent by king Seleucus to rob treasury, so this man also, as soon as had come, had been forthwith scourged, and put back from his presumption.
19 Verum non propter locum gentem, sed proptergentem locum Dominus elegit.	19 But God did not choose the people for the place's sake, but the place for the people's sake.
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 therefore the place also itself was made partaker of the evils of the people: but afterward shall communicate in the good things thereof, and as it was forsaken in the wrath of almighty God, shall be exalted again with great glory, when the great Lord shall be reconciled.
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 So when Antiochus had taken away out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he went back in all haste to Antioch, thinking through pride, that he might now make the land navigable, and the sea passable on foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.
22 Reliquitautem et praepositos ad affligendam gentem: Hierosolymis quidem Philippum,genere Phrygem, moribus barbariorem eo ipso, a quo constitutus est;	22 He left also governors to afflict the people: at Jerusalem, Philip, a Phrygian by birth, but in manners more barbarous than he that set him there:
23 inGarizim autem Andronicum; praeter autem hos Menelaum, qui gravius quam ceteriimminebat civibus.	23 And in Gazarim, Andronicus and Menelaus, who bore a more heavy hand upon the citizens than the rest.
24 Misit autem Apollonium Mysarcham cum exercitu — vigintivero et duo milia virorum — praecipiens omnes perfectae aetatis interficere,mulieres autem ac iuniores vendere.	24 And whereas he was set against the Jews, he sent that hateful prince Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand men, commanding him to kill all that were of perfect age, and to sell the women and the younger sort.
25 Qui cum venisset Hierosolymam etpacificum se simulasset, quievit usque ad diem sanctum sabbati et, cumcomprehenderet feriatos Iudaeos, arma capere suis praecepit;	25 Who when he was come to Jerusalem, pretending peace, rested till the holy day of the sabbath: and then the Jews keeping holiday, he commanded his men to take arms.
26 omnesque, qui adspectaculum processerant, trucidavit et civitatem cum armatis discurrensingentem multitudinem peremit.	26 And he slew all that were come forth to see: and running through the city with armed men, he destroyed a very great multitude.
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 But Judas Machabeus, who was the tenth, had withdrawn himself into a desert place, and there lived amongst wild beasts in the mountains with his company: and they continued feeding on herbs, that they might not be partakers of the pollution.