4 Maccabees 16:5
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
For we must consider also this: that, had the woman been faint-hearted, as being their mother, she would have lamented over them; and perhaps might have spoken thus:
Greek · Brenton
Καὶ γὰρ τοῦτο ἐπιλογίσασθαι, ὅτι εἰ δειλόψυχος ἦν ἡ γυνὴ, καίπερ μήτηρ οὖσα, ὠλοφύρετο ἂν ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς· καὶ ἴσως ἄν ταῦτα οὕτως εἶπεν,