Löydetty 3833 Tulokset: Red
Access thus gained to the king’s person, Menelaus was careful to flatter his self-conceit; then, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver, diverted the high-priestly succession to himself. (2 Maccabees 4, 24)
whereat Antiochus himself was heartily grieved, ay, and moved to tears of pity, such memories he had of Onias’ well-ordered, honourable life. (2 Maccabees 4, 37)
and Menelaus was as good as lost. What did he? With the promise of a great bribe he secured the good word of Ptolemy, son of Dorymenes;✻ (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
Ptolemy it was waylaid the king, as he rested from the heat in a covered walk of his, and put him from his purpose. (2 Maccabees 4, 46)
So now Menelaus, that was at the root of all the mischief, must go scot free, and his unhappy accusers, that might have cleared themselves easily enough before a court of bloodthirsty Scythians,✻ with their lives must pay for it. (2 Maccabees 4, 47)
now riding in ordered ranks, now engaged in close combat. In long array they moved past, shields and helmeted heads and drawn swords; flew javelin and flashed golden harness, a whole armoury of shining mail. (2 Maccabees 5, 3)
And now a false rumour went abroad, Antiochus had come by his death. Jason’s ears it reached, and all at once, with full a thousand men at his back, he delivered an assault upon the city. Let the townsfolk man the walls as they would, at last it fell, and Menelaus must take refuge within the citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
then he bade his troops go about killing, with no quarter for any they met; let a man but shew his face on the house-top, he must be slaughtered with the rest. (2 Maccabees 5, 12)
Fell young and old alike; children with their mothers must die, nor maidenhood was spared, nor helpless infancy. (2 Maccabees 5, 13)
By the end of three days, eighty thousand had been massacred, forty thousand held as prisoners, and as many more sold into slavery. (2 Maccabees 5, 14)
What, should those sacred ornaments, dedicated by kings and peoples for the more splendour and worthiness of it, be caught up in his impious hands, pawed and defiled by his touch? (2 Maccabees 5, 16)
Antiochus, then, came away from the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents the richer; and back he went to Antioch, all at reckless speed; he had a mind to sail his fleet over the plain, march his troops across the sea, his heart so swelled with pride in his doings. (2 Maccabees 5, 21)
