4 Maccabees 16:1
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children's torments even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is master even of the passions.
Greek · Brenton
Εἰ δὲ τοίνυν καὶ γυνὴ, καὶ γηραιὰ, καὶ ἑπτὰ παὶδων μήτηρ ὑπέμεινε τὰς μέχρι θανάτου βασάνους ὁρῶσα τῶν τέκνων· ὁμολογουμένως αὐτοκράτωρ ἐστὶν τῶν παθῶν ὁ εὐσεβὴς λογισμός.