3 Maccabees 4:15
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days.
Greek · Brenton
Ἐγίνετο μὲν οὖν ἡ τοὺτων ἀπογραφὴ μετὰ πικρᾶς σπουδῆς καὶ φιλοτίμου προσεδρίας ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν ἡλίου μέχρι δυσμῶν, ἀνήνυτον λαμβάνουσα τὸ τέλος επὶ ἡμέρας τεσσαράκοντα.