Source and licence
share: attributiongreekSource: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; II Maccabees 5; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
Attribution: Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
The text
27 lines · a line number is a link to itself| ref | L0 witness |
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| 5:1 | Περὶ δὲ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον τὴν δευτέραν ἄφοδον ὁ Ἀντίοχος εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἐστείλατο. |
| 5:2 | συνέβη δὲ καθʼ ὅλην τὴν πόλιν σχεδὸν ἐφʼ ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα φαίνεσθαι διὰ τῶν ἀέρων τρέχοντας ἱππεῖς διαχρύσους στολὰς ἔχοντας, καὶ λόγχας σπειρηδὸν ἐξωπλισμένους, |
| 5:3 | καὶ μαχαιρῶν σπασμούς, καὶ εἴλας ἵππων διατεταγμένας, καὶ προσβολὰς γινομένας καὶ καταδρομὰς ἑκατέραων, καὶ ἀσπίδων κινήσεις, καὶ καμάτων πλήθη, καὶ βελῶν βολάς, καὶ χρυσέων κόσμων ἐκλάμψεις, καὶ παντοίους θωρακισμούς. |
| 5:4 | διὸ πάντες ἠξίουν ἐπʼ ἀγαθῷ τὴν ἐπιφανίαν γεγενῆσθαι. |
| 5:5 | Γενομένης δὲ λάλας ψευδοῦς, ὡς μετηλλαχότος Ἀντιόχου τὸν βίον, παραλαβὼν ὁ Ἰάσων οὐκ ἐλάττους τῶν χιλίων, ἐφνιδίως ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν συνετελέσατο ἐπίθεσιν· τῶν δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ τείχει συνελασθέντων, καὶ τέλος ἤδη κταταλαμβανομένης τῆς πόλεως, ὁ Μενέλαος εἰς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν ἐφυγάδευκεν. |
| 5:6 | ὁ δὲ Ἰάσων ἐποιεῖτο σφαγὰς τῆς πόλεως τῶν ἰδίων ἀφειδῶς, οὐ συννοῶν τὴν εἰς τοὺς συγγενεῖς εὐημερίαν δυσημερίαν εἶναι τὴν μεγίστην, δοκῶν δὲ πολεμίων καὶ οὐχ ὁμοεθνῶν τρόπαια καταβάλλεσθαι. |
| 5:7 | τῆς μέν ἀρχῆς οὐκ ἐκράτησεν, τὸ δέ τέλος τῆς ἐπιβουλῆς αἰσχύνην λαβών, φυγὰς πάλιν εἰς τὴν Ἀμμανῖτιν παρῆλθεν. |
| 5:8 | πέρας οὖν κακῆς καταστροφῆς ἔτυχεν, ἐγκλεισθεὶς πρὸς Ἀρέταν τὸν τῶν Ἀράβων τύραννον, πόλιν ἐκ πόλεως φεύγων, διωκόμενος ὑπὸ πάντων, στυγούμενος ὡς τῶν νόμων ἀποστάτης καὶ βδελυσσόμενος ὡς πατρίδος καὶ πολιτῶν δήμιος, εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἐξεβράσθη. |
| 5:9 | ὁ συχνοὺς τῆς πατρίδος ἀποξενώσας ἐπὶ ξένης ἀπώλετο, πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους ἀναχθείς, ὡς διὰ τὴν συγγενίαν τευξόμενος σκέπης· |
| 5:10 | καὶ ὁ πλῆθος ἀτάφων ἐκρίψας ἀπένθητος ἐγενήθη, καὶ κηδίας οὐδ’ ἥστινος οὔτε πατρῴου νόμου μετέσχεν. |
| 5:11 | Προσπεσόντων δέ τῷ βασιλεῖ περὶ τῶν γεγονότων, διέλαβεν ἀποστάτιν τὴν Ἰουδαίαν· ὅθεν ἀναζεύξας ἐξ Αἰγύπτου τεθηριωμένος τῇ ψυχῇ, ἔλαβεν τὴν μέν πόλιν δοριάλωτον. |
| 5:12 | καὶ ἐκέλευσεν τοῖς στρατιώταις κόπτειν ἀφειδῶς τοὺς ἐνπίπτοντας, καὶ τοὺς ἐν ταῖς οἰκίαις ἀναβαίνοντας κατασφάζειν. |
| 5:13 | ἐγίνετο δὲ νέων καὶ πρεσβυτέρων ἀναίρεσις, ἀνήβων τε καὶ γυναικῶν καὶ τέκνων ἀφανισμός, παρθένων τε καὶ νηπίων σφαγαί. |
| 5:14 | ὀκτὼ δὲ μυριάδες ἐν ταῖς πάσαις ἡμέραις τρισὶν κατεφθάρησαν, τέσσαρες μέν ἐν χεῖρῶν νόμοις, οὐχ ἧττον δὲ τῶν ἐσφαγμένων ἐπράθησαν. |
| 5:15 | οὐκ ἄρκεσθεὶς δέ τούτοις, κατετόλμησεν εἰς τὸ πάσης τῆς γῆς ἁγιώτατον ἱερὸν εἰσελθεῖν, ὁδηγὸν ἔχων τὸν Μενέλαον, τὸν καὶ τῶν νόμων καὶ τῆς πατρίδος προδότην γεγονότα, |
| 5:16 | καὶ ταῖς μιεραις χερσὶν τὰ ἱερὰ σκεύη λαμβάνων, καὶ τὰ ὑπὸ πολλῶν βασιλέων ἀνασταθέντα πρὸς αὔξησιν καὶ δόξαν τοῦ τόπου καὶ τιμήν, ταῖς βεβήλοις χερσὶν συνσύρων. |
| 5:17 | καὶ ἐμετεωρίζετο τὴν διάνοιαν ὁ Ἀντίοχος, οὐ συνορῶν ὅτι διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας τῶν τὴν πόλιν οἰκούντων ἀπώργισται βραχέως ὁ δεσπότης, διὸ γέγονεν περὶ τὸν τόπον παρόρασις. |
| 5:18 | εἰ δέ μὴ συνέβη προσενέχεσθαι πολλοῖς ἁμαρτήμασιν, καθάπερ ἦν ὁ Ἡλιόδωρος ὁ πεμφθεὶς ὑπὸ Σελεύκου τοῦ βασιλέως ἐπὶ τὴν ἐπίσκέψιν τοῦ γαζοφυλακίου, οὗτος προαχθεὶς παραχρῆμα μαστιγωθεὶς ἀνετράπη τοῦ θράσους. |
| 5:19 | ἀλλʼ οὐ διὰ τὸν τόπον τὸ ἔθνος, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ ἔθνος τὸν τόπον ὁ κύριος ἐξελέξατο. |
| 5:20 | διόπερ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ τόπος συνμετασχῶν τοῦ ἔθνους δυσπετημάτων γενομένων, ὕστερον εὐεργετημάτων ἐκοινώνησεν· καὶ ὁ καταληφθεὶς ἐν τῇ τοῦ παντοκράτορος ὀργῇ, πάλιν ἐν τῇ τοῦ μεγάλου δεσπότου καταλλαγῇ μετὰ πάσης δόξης ἐπανωρθώθη. |
| 5:21 | Ὁ οὖν Ἀντίοχος ὀκτακόσια πρὸς τοῖς χιλίοις ἀπενεγκάμενος ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τάλαντα θᾶττον εἰς τὴν Ἀντιοχίαν ἐχωρίσθη, οἰόμενος ἀπὸ τῆς ὑπερηφανίας τὴν μέν γῆν πλωτὴν καὶ τὸ πέλαγος πορευτὸν θέσθαι, διὰ τὸν μετεωρισμὸν τῆς καρδίας. |
| 5:22 | κατέλειπεν δέ καὶ ἐπιστάτας τοῦ κακοῦν τὸ γένος, ἐν μέν Ἰεροσολύμοις Φίλιππον τὸ μέν γένος Φρύγα, τὸν δὲ τρόπον βαρβαρώτερον ἔχοντα τοῦ καταστήσαντος· |
| 5:23 | ἐν δὲ Γαριζεὶν Ἀνδρόνικον· πρὸς δὲ τούτοις Μενέλαος χείριστα τῶν ἄλλων ὑπερῄρετο τοῖς πολίταις, ἀπεχθῆ δὲ πρὸς τοὺς πολίτας Ἰουδαίους ἔχων διάθεσιν. |
| 5:24 | ἔπεμψεν δὲ τὸν μυσάρχην Ἀπολλώνιον μετὰ στρατεύματος, δισμυρίους δὲ τοῖς δισχιλίοις, προστάξας τοὺς ἐν ἡλικίᾳ πάντας κατασφάξαι, τὰς δέ γυναῖκας καὶ τοὺς νεωτέρους πωλεῖν. |
| 5:25 | οὗτος δὲ παραγενόμενος εἰς Ἰεροσόλυμα καὶ τὸν εἰρηνικὸν ὑποκριθείς, ἐπέσχεν ἕως τῆς ἁγίας ἡμέρας τοῦ σαββάτου· καὶ λαβὼν ἀργοῦντας τοὺς Ἰουδαίους τοῖς ὑφʼ ἑαυτὸν ἐξοπλισίαν παρήγγειλεν, |
| 5:26 | καὶ τοὺς ἐλθόντας πάντας ἐπὶ τὴν θεωρίαν συνεξεκέντησεν, καὶ εἰς τὴν πόλιν σὺν τοῖς ὅπλοις εἰσδραμὼν ἱκανὰ κατέστησεν πλήθη. |
| 5:27 | Ἰούδας δὲ ὁ καὶ Μακκαβαῖος, δέκατός που γενηθεὶς καὶ ἀναχωρήσας, ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσιν θηρίων τρόπον διέζη σὺν τοῖς μετʼ αὐτοῦ· καὶ τὴν χορτώδη τροφὴν σιτούμενοι διετέλουν, πρὸς τὸ μὴ μετασχεῖν τοῦ μολυσμοῦ. |
Provenance
- title
- II Maccabees 5 (Greek, Swete)
- dialect
- greek
- source
- Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; II Maccabees 5; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
- licence
- CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
- share
- attribution
- attribution
- Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
- file
- Bible/Old Testament/II Maccabees/05.greek.swete.L0.txt
L0 witness
Cite as:
II Maccabees 5 (Greek, Swete). Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; II Maccabees 5; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/bible/old-testament/ii-maccabees/05.greek.swete/. Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
What the layers are
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.