4 Maccabees 15:5
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
for by how much mothers are by nature weak in disposition and prolific in offspring, by so much the fonder they are of children.
Greek · Brenton
Ὅσῳ γὰρ καὶ ἀσθενόψυχοι καὶ πολυγονώτεραι ὑπάρχουσιν μητέρες, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλόν εἰσιν φιλοτεκνότεραι.