Secondo libro dei Maccabei 5

NOVA VULGATA	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Circa hoc autem tempus Anti ochus secundam profectionem paravit inAegyptum.	1 About the same time Antiochus prepared his second voyage 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 then it happened, that through all the city, for the space almost of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band 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 troops of horsemen in array, encountering and running one against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden ornaments, and harness of all sorts.
4 Quapropter omnes rogabant pro bono factam esseostensionem.	4 Wherefore every man prayed that that apparition 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 took at the least a thousand men, and suddenly made an assault upon the city; and they that were upon the walls being put back, and the city at length taken, Menelans 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 own citizens without mercy, not considering that to get the day of them of his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him; but thinking they had been his enemies, and not his countrymen, whom he conquered.
7 Etprincipatum quidem non obtinuit, finem vero insidiarum suarum confusionemadeptus, profugus iterum abiit in Ammanitidem.	7 Howbeit for all this he obtained not the principality, but at the last received shame for the reward of his treason, 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 In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being had in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.
9 Et, quimultos de patria expulerat, peregre periit ad Lacedaemonios pervectus, quasi procognatione habiturus protectionem;	9 Thus he that had driven many out of their country perished in a strange land, retiring to the Lacedemonians, and thinking there to find succour by reason of his kindred:
10 et, qui insepultos multos abiecerat, ipseillamentatus permansit nec exsequiis ullis neque patrio sepulcro participavit.	10 And he that had cast out many unburied had none to mourn for him, nor any solemn funerals at all, nor sepulchre with 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 this that was done came to the king's car, he thought that Judea had revolted: whereupon removing out of Egypt in 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 his men of war not to spare such as they met, and to slay such as went up upon the houses.
13 Fiebant ergo iuvenum ac seniorum caedes, mulierum et natorum exterminiumvirginumque et parvulorum neces.	13 Thus there was killing of young and old, making away of men, women, and children, slaying 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 destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict; and no fewer sold than slain.
15 Non contentus autem his, ausus estintrare templum universae terrae sanctissimum, ducem habens Menelaum, qui legumet patriae fuit proditor,	15 Yet was he not content with this, but presumed to go intothe most holy temple of all the world; Menelans, that traitor to the laws, and to his own 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 the holy vessels with polluted hands, and with profane hands pulling down the things that were dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place, he gave them away.
17 Ita extollebatur mente Antiochus nonconsiderans quod propter peccata habitantium civitatem modicum Dominus fueratiratus; propter quod accidit circa locum despectio.	17 And so haughty was Antiochus in mind, that he considered not that the Lord was angry for a while for the sins of them that dwelt in the city, and therefore his eye was not upon 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 For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man, as soon as he had come, had forthwith been scourged, and put back from his presumption, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury.
19 Verum non propter locum gentem, sed proptergentem locum Dominus elegit.	19 Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the place's sake, but the place far 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 itself, that was partaker with them of the adversity that happened to the nation, did afterward communicate in the benefits sent from the Lord: and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set up with all 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 So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed in all haste unto Antiochia, weening in his pride to make the land navigable, and the sea passable by 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 And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more barbarous than he that set him there;
23 inGarizim autem Andronicum; praeter autem hos Menelaum, qui gravius quam ceteriimminebat civibus.	23 And at Garizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelans, who worse than all the rest bare an heavy hand over the citizens, having a malicious mind against his countrymen 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 He sent also that detestable ringleader Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all those that were in their best 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 coming to Jerusalem, and pretending peace, did forbear till the holy day of the sabbath, when taking the Jews keeping holy day, he commanded his men to arm themselves.
26 omnesque, qui adspectaculum processerant, trucidavit et civitatem cum armatis discurrensingentem multitudinem peremit.	26 And so he slew all them that were gone to the celebrating of the sabbath, and running through the city with weapons slew great multitudes.
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 Maccabeus with nine others, or thereabout, withdrew himself into the wilderness, and lived in the mountains after the manner of beasts, with his company, who fed on herbs continually, lest they should be partakers of the pollution.