2 Maccabees 10:17
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
and assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and slew all that fell into their hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.
Greek · Brenton
οἷς καὶ προσβαλόντες εὐρώστως, ἐγκρατεῖς ἐγένοντο τῶν τόπων, πάντας τε τοὺς ἐπὶ τῷ τείχει μαχομένους ἠμύναντο· κατέσφαζόν δε τοὺς ἐμπίπτοντας, ἀνεῖλον δὲ οὐχ ἧττον τῶν δισμυρίων.