IV Maccabees 9 (Greek, Swete) — Coptic · Cairene

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Source: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; IV Maccabees 9; 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)

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The text

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ref	L0 witness
9:1	Τί μέλλεις, ὦ τύραννε; ἕτοιμοι γάρ ἐσμεν ἀποθνήσκειν, ἢ παραβαίνειν τὰς πατρίους ἡμῶν ἐντολάς.
9:2	καὶ αἰσχυνόμεθα γὰρ τοὺς προγόνους εἰκότως, εἰ μὴ τῇ τοῦ νόμου εὐπειθείᾳ συμβούλῳ καὶ γνώσει χρησαί μέθα.
9:3	σύμβουλε τύραννε παρανομίας, μὴ ἡμᾶς μισῶν ὑπέρ αὐτοὺς ἡμᾶς ἐλέα.
9:4	χαλεπώτερον γὰρ αὐτοῦ τοῦ θαυάτου νομίζομεν εἶναί σου τὸν ἐπὶ τῇ παρανόμῳ σωτηρίᾳ ἡμῶν ἔλεον.
9:5	ἐκφοβεῖς δὲ ἡμᾶς, τὸν διὰ τῶν βασάνων ἡμῖν θάνατον ἀπειλῶν, ἄὥσπερ οὐχὶ πρὸ βραχέως παρὰ Ἐλεαζάρου μαθών.
9:6	εἰ δ᾿ οἱ γέροντες τῶν Ἐβραίων διὰ τὴν εὐσέβειαν καὶ βασανισμοὺς ὑπομείναντες ἀπέθανον, ἀποθάνοιμεν ἂν δικαιότερον ἡμεῖς οἱ νέοι, τὰς βασάνους τῶν σῶν ἀναγκῶν ὑπεριδόντες ἄς καὶ ὁ παιδευτὴς γέρων ἐνίκησεν.
9:7	πείραζε γὰρ οὖν, τύραννε· καὶ τὰς ἡμῶν ψυχὰς εἰ θανατώσεις διὰ τὴν εὐσέβειαν, μὴ νομίσῃς ἡμᾶς βλάπτειν βασανίζων.
9:8	ἡμεῖς μὲν γὰρ διὰ τῆσδε τῆς κακοπαθείας καὶ ὑπομονῆς τὰ τῆς ἀρετῆς ἆθλα οἴσομεν,
9:9	σὺ δὲ διὰ τὴν ἡμῶν μιεροφονίαν αὐτάρκη καρτερήσεις ὑπὸ τῆς θείας δίκης αἰόνιον βασάνου διὰ πυρός.
9:10	Ταῦτα αὐτῶν εἰπόντων, οὐ μόνον ὡς κατὰ ἀπειθούντων ἐχαλέπαινεν ὁ τύραννος, ἀλλ᾿ ὁὡς καὶ κατὰ ἀχαρίστων ὠργίσθη.
9:11	ὅθεν τὸν πρεσβύτατον οὐτων κελευσθέντες παρήγαγον οἱ μμστισταί, καὶ διαρρήξαντες τὸν χιτῶνα διέδησαν τὰς χεῦρας αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς βραχί ὀνᾶς ἱμᾶσιν ἑκατέρωθεν.
9:12	ὼς δὲ τύπτοντες ταῖς μάστιξιν ἐκοπίασαν, μηδέν ἀνύοντες, ἀνέβαλον αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸν τροχόν.
9:13	περὶ ὅν κατατεινόμενος ὁ εὐγενὴς νεανίας ἔξαρθρος ἐγίνετο.
9:14	καὶ κατὰ πᾶν μέλος κλώμενος κατηγόρει λέγων
9:15	Γύραννε μιερώτατε καὶ τῆς οὐραυίου δίκης ἐχθρέ καὶ ὠμόφρον, οὐκ ἀνδροφονήσαντά με τοῦτον καταικίζεις τὸν τρόπον, οὐδὲ ἀσεβήσαντα, ἀλλὰ θείου υόμου προασπίζοντα.
9:16	καὶ τῶν δορυφόρων λεγόντων Ομολόγησον φαγεῖν, ὅπως ἀπαλλαγὴς τῶν βασάνων,
9:17	ὁ δὲ εἶπεν Οὐχ οὕτως ἰσχυρὸς ὑμῶν ἐστιν ὁ τρόπος, ὠ σμιεροὶ διάκονοι, ὥστε μου τὸν λογισμὸν ἄξαι. τέμνετέ μου μέλη, καὶ πυροῦτε τὰς σάρκας, καὶ στρεβλοῦτε τὰ ἄρθρα ·
9:18	διο πασῶν γὰρ ὑμᾶς πείσω τῶν βασάνων ὅτι μόνοι οἱ παῖδες Ἐβραίων ὑπέρ ἀρετῆς εἰσιν ἀνίκητοι.
9:19	πρῦτα λέγοντες ἔτι πῦρ ἐπέστραωσαν, καὶ διερεθίζοντες τὸν τροχὸν προσεπικατέτεινον.
9:20	ἐμολύνετο δὲ πάντοθεν αἵματι ὁ τροχός, καὶ ὁ σωρὸς τῆς ἀνθρακιᾶς τοῖς τῶν ἰχώραον ἐσβέννυτο σταλαγμοῖς, καὶ περὶ τοὺς ἄξονας τοῦ ἀργάνου περιέρεον αἱ σάρκες.
9:21	καὶ περιτετηγμένον ἤδη ἔχων τὸ τῶν ὀστέων πῆγμα ὁ μεγαλόφρων καὶ Ἀβραμιαῖος νεανίας οὐκ ἐστέναξεν.
9:22	ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ἐν πυρὶ μετασχηματιζόμενος εἰς ἀφθαρσίαν, ὑπέμεινεν εὐγενῶς τὰς στρέβλας
9:23	Μιμήσασθέ με, ἀδελφοί, λέγων· μὴ μου τὸν αἰῶνα λειποτακτήσητε, μηδέ ἐξομόσησθέ μου τὴν τῆς εὐψυχίας ἀδελφότητα· ἱερὰν καὶ εὐγενῆ στρατείαν στρατεύσασθε περὶ τῆς εὐσεβείας,
9:24	δί ἧς ἵλεως ἡ δικαία καὶ πάτριος ἡμῶν πρόνοια τῷ ἔθνει γενηθεῖσα τιμαορησειεν τὸν ἀλάστορα τύραννον.
9:25	καὶ ταῦτα εἰπ ὼν ὁ ἱεροπρεπὴς νεανίας ἀπέρρηξεν τὴν ψυχὴν.
9:26	Θαυμασάντων δὲ πάντων τὴν καρτεροψυχίαν αὐτοῦ, ἦγον οἱ δορυφόροι τὸν καθʼ ἡλικίαν τοῦ προτέρου δεύτερον, καὶ σιδηρᾶς ἐναρμοσάμενοι χείρας ἀξέσιν τοῖς ὄυυξιν, τοῖς ὀργάνοις καὶ καταπέλτῃ προσέδησαν αὐτόν.
9:27	ὡς δʼ εἰ φαγεῖν βούλοιτο πρὶν βασανίζεσθαι πυνθανόμενοι, τὴν εὐγενῆ γναώμην ἤκουσαν,
9:28	ἀπ ὸ τῶν τενόντωυ ταῖς σιδηραῖς χερσὶν ἐπισπασάμενοι, μενοι, μθχρ γε τῶν γενείων τὴν σάρκα πᾶσαυ καὶ τὴν τῆς κεφαλῆς δορὰν οἱ παρδάλιοι θῆρες ἀπέσυραν· ὁ δὲ ταύτην βαρέως τὴν ἀλγηδόνα καρτερῶν, ἔλεγεν
9:29	Ὡς ἡδὺς πᾶς τρόπος θανάτου διὰ τὴν πάτριον ἡμῶν εὺσέβειαν· ἔφη τε πρὸς τὸν τύραννον
9:30	ὐ δοκεῖς, πάντων ὠμότατε τύραννε, πλεῖον ἐμοῦ σ ε υῦυ βασανίζεσθαι, ὁρῶν σου νικώμενον τὸν τῆς τυραννίδος ὑπερήφανον λογισμὸν ὑπὸ τῆς διὰ τὴν εὐσέβειαν ἡμῶν ὑπομονῆς ;
9:31	ἐγὼ μέν γὰρ ταῖς διὰ τὴν ἀρετὴν ἡδοναῖς τὸν πόνον ἐπικουφίζομαι
9:32	σὺ δὲ ἐν ταῖς τῆς ἀσεβείας ἀπειλαῖς βασανίζῃ· οὐκ ἐκφεύξῃ δέ, μιερώτατε τύραννε, τὰς τῆς θείας ἀργῆς δίκας.

Provenance

title: IV Maccabees 9 (Greek, Swete)
dialect: greek
source: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; IV Maccabees 9; 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)
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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/IV Maccabees/09.greek.swete.L0.txt

Cite as:

IV Maccabees 9 (Greek, Swete). Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; IV Maccabees 9; 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/iv-maccabees/09.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).

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L0.5 transliteration
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).

L1 Cairene
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