4 Maccabees 17:1
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
And some of the spearbearers said, that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself upon the pile, rather than that they should touch her person.
Greek · Brenton
Ἔλεγον δὲ καὶ τῶν δορυφόρων τινὲς, ὡς ὅτε ἔμελλεν καὶ αὐτὴ συλλαμβάνεσθαι πρὸς θάνατον, ἵνα μὴ ψαύσειέν τι τοῦ σώματος ἑαυτῆς, ἑαυτὴν ἔῤῥιψεν κατὰ τῆς πυρᾶς.