2 Maccabees 14:42
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth:
Greek · Brenton
εὐγενῶς θέλων ἀποθανεῖν, ἤπερ τοῖς ἀλιτηρίοις ὑποχείριος γενέσθαι, καὶ τῆς ἰδίας εὐγενείας ἀναξίως ὑβρισθῆναι.