IV Maccabees 11 (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 11; 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
11:1	Ὡς δὲ καὶ οὐτος ταῖς βασάνοις καταικισθεὶς ἐναπέθανεν, ὁ πέμπτος παρεπήδησεν, λέγων
11:2	Οὐ μέλλω, τύραννε, πρὸς τὸν ὑπέρ τῆς ἀρετῆς βασανισμὸν παραιτεῖσθαι
11:3	αὐτὸς δʼ ἀπʼ ἐμαυτοῦ παρῆλθου, ὅπως κἀμέ κατακτείνας, περὶ πλειόνων ἀδικημάτων ὄφιλήσῃς τῇ οὐρανίῳ δίκῃ τιμαωρίαν.
11:4	ὦ μισάρετε και μισάνθρωπε, τί δράσαντας ἡμᾶς τοῦτον πορθεῖς τὸν τρόπον;
11:5	ἤ κακόν σοι δοκεῖ, ὅτι τὸν πάντων κτίστην εὐσεβοῦμεν, καὶ κατἀ τὸν ἔνάρετον αὐτοῦ ζῶμεν νόμον;
11:6	ἁλλὰ ταῦτα τιμῶν. οὐ βασάνων ἐστὶν ἄξια,
11:7	εἴπερ ᾐσθάνου ἀνθρώπους ποθῶν, καὶ ἐλπίδα εἰχες παρὰ θεῷ σωτηρίου·
11:8	νῖν ἰδὲ ἀλλότριος ὧν θεοῦ, πολεμεῖς τοὺς εὐσεβοῦντας εἰς τὸν θεόν.
11:9	τοιαῦτα λέγοντα οἱ δορυφόροι δήσαντες αὐτὸν εἷλκον ἐπὶ τὸυ καταπέλτην·
11:10	ἐφʼ ὃν δήσαντες αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τά γόνατα, καὶ ταῦτα ποδάγραις σιδηραῖς ἐφαρμόσαντες τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν τροχιαῖον σφῆνα κατέκαμψαν· περὶ ὃν ὁλος ἐπὶ τὸν τροχὸν σκορπίου τρόπον ἀνακλώμενος ἐξεμελίζετο.
11:11	κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα στενοχααορούμενος καὶ τὸ σῶμα ἀγχόμενος
11:12	Καλάς, ἔλεγεν, ἄκων, ὁ τύραννος. χάριτας ἡμῖν χαρίζῃ, καλάς, διὰ γενναιοτέρων πονων ἐπιδείξασθαι παρέχων τὴν εἰς τὸν νόμον ἡμῶν καρτερίαν.
11:13	Τελευτήσαντος δέ καὶ τούτου, ὁ ἔκτος ἤγετο μειρακίσκος· ὃς πυνθανομένου τοῦ τυράννου εἰ βούλοιτο φαγὼν ἀπολύεσθαι, ὁ δὲ ἔφη
11:14	Ἐγὼ τῇ μὲν ἡλικίᾳ τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου εἰμὶ νεώτερος, τῇ δὲ διανοίᾳ ἡλικιώτης.
11:15	εἰς τὰ αὐτὰ γὰρ καὶ γενηθέντες καὶ τραφέντες, ὑπὲρ τῶν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀποθνήσκειν ὀφίλομεν ὁμοίως.
11:16	ὥστε εἴ σοι δοκεῖ βασανίζειν μὴ μιεροφαγοῦντας, βασάνιζε.
11:17	ταῦτα αὐτὸν εἰπόντα παρῆγον ἐπὶ τὸν τροχόν.
11:18	ἐφʼ οὗ κατατεινόμενος εὐμελῶς καὶ ἐκσφονδυλιζόμενος ὑπεκαίετο.
11:19	καὶ ὀβελίσκους ὀξεῖς πυρώσαντες, τοῖς νώτοις προσέφερον· καὶ τὰ πλευρὰ διαπεί ραντες, ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ τὰ σπλάγχνα διέκαιον.
11:20	ὁ δὲ βασανιζόμενος Ὦ ἱεροπρεποῦς αἰῶνος, ἔλεγεν, ἐφʼ ὃν διὰ τὴν εὐσέβειαν εἰς γυμνασίαν πόνων ἀδελφοὶ τοσοῦτοι κληθέντες οὐκ ἐνικήθημεν.
11:21	ἀνίκητος γάρ ἐστιν, ὦ τύραννε, ἡ εὐσεβὴς ἐπιστήμη.
11:22	καλοκἀγαθίᾳ καθωπλισμένος τεθνήξομαι κἀγὼ μετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου,
11:23	μέγαν σοι προσβάλλων καὶ αὐτὸς ἀλάστορα, καινουργὲ τῶν βασάνων, καὶ πολέμιε τῶν ἀληθῶς εὐσεβούντων.
11:24	ἓξ μειράκια κατελύσαμέν σου τὴν τυραννίδα.
11:25	τὸ γὰρ μὴ δυνηθῆναί σε μεταπεῖσαι τὸν λογισμὸν ἡμῶν, μήτε βιάσασθαι πρὸς τὴν μιεροφαγίαν, οὐ κατάλυσίς ἐστίν σου;
11:26	τὸ πῦρ σου ψυχρὸν ἡμῖν, καὶ ἄπονοι οἱ καταπέλται, καὶ ἀδύνατος ἡ βία σου.
11:27	οὐ γὰρ τυράννου ἀλλὰ θείου νόμου προεστήκασιν ἡμῶν οἱ δορυφόροι· διά τοῦτο ἀνίκητον ἔχομεν τὸν λογισμόν.

Provenance

title: IV Maccabees 11 (Greek, Swete)
dialect: greek
source: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; IV Maccabees 11; 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/11.greek.swete.L0.txt

Cite as:

IV Maccabees 11 (Greek, Swete). Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; IV Maccabees 11; 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/11.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 witness
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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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