Source and licence
share: attributiongreekSource: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; IV Maccabees 16; 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
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| 16:1 | Εὶ δὲ τοίνυν και γυνὴ καὶ γεραιὰ καὶ ἑπτὰ παίδων μητηρ ὐπέμεινεν τὰς μέχρι θανάτου βασάνους ὁρῶσα τῶν τέκνων· ἁμολογουμένααως αὐτοκράτωρ ἐστὶν τῶν παθῶν ὁ εὐσεβὴς λογισμός. |
| 16:2 | αἀπέδειξα οὖν ὅτι οὐ μόνον τῶν παθὼυ ἄνδρες επεκράτησαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ γυνη τῶν μεγίστααον βασάνων ὑπερεφρόνησεν. |
| 16:3 | καὶ οὐχ ουτως οἱ περὶ Δανιὴλ λέοντες ἦσαν ἄγριοι, οὐδὲ Μισαὴλ ἐκφλεγομένη κάμινος λαβροτάτῳ πυρί, ὡς τῆς φιλοτεκνίας περιέκαιεν ἐκείνη φύσις, ὁρῶσα αὐτῆς τοὺς ἑπτὰ υἱοὺς βασανιζομένους. |
| 16:4 | ἀλλὰ τῷ λογισμῷ τῆς εὐσεβείας κατέσβεσε τοσαῦτα καὶ τηλικαῦτα πάθη ἡ μήτηρ. |
| 16:5 | καὶ γὰρ τοῦτο ἐπιλογίσασθαι, ὅτι εἰ δειλόψυχος ἧν ἡ γυνή. καίπερ μήτηρ οὗσα, ὠλοφύρετο ἂν ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς· καὶ ἴσως ἂν ταῦτα οὕτως εἶπεν |
| 16:6 | Ὦ μελέα ἔγωγε καὶ πολλάκις τρισαθλία, ἥτις ἑπτὰ παῖδας τεκοῦσα, οὐδενὸς μήτηρ γεγένημαι. |
| 16:7 | ὦ μάταιοι ἑπτὰ κυοφορίαι, καὶ ἀνόνητοι ἑπτὰ δεκάμηνοι, καὶ ἄκαρποι τιθηνίαι, καὶ ταλαίπωροι γαλακτοτροφίαι. |
| 16:8 | μάτην ἐφʼ ὑμῖν, ὦ παῖδες, πολλὰς ὑπέμεινα ὼδῖυας καὶ χαλεπωτέρας φροντίδας ἀνατροφῆς. |
| 16:9 | ὦ τῶν ἐμῶν παίδων, οἱ μὲν ἄγαμοι, οἱ δέ γαμήσαντες ἀνονητοι, οὐκ ὄψομαι ὑμῶν τέκνα, οὐδέ μάμμη κληθεῖσα μακαρισθήσομαι. |
| 16:10 | ὦ ἡ πολύπαις καὶ καλλίπαις ἐγὼ γυνὴ χήρα καὶ μόνη πολύθρηνος· |
| 16:11 | οὐδʼ ἂν ἀποθάνω, θάπτοντα τῶν υἱῶν ἔξω τινά. ἀλλὰ τούτῳ τῷ θρήνῳ οὐδένα ὀλοφύρετο ἡ ἱερὰ καὶ θεοσεβὴς μήτηρ, |
| 16:12 | οὐδʼ ἵνα μὴ ἀποθάνωσν ἀπέτρεπεν αὐτῶν τινα, οὐδʼ ὡς ἀποθνησκόντων ἐλυπήθη. |
| 16:13 | ἀλλʼ ὥσπε ἀδαμαντινον ἔχουσα τὸν νοῦν, καὶ εἰς ἀθανασίαν ἀνατίκτουσα τὸν τῶν υἱῶν ἀριθμόν, μᾶλλον ὑπέρ τῆς εὐσεβείας ἐπὶ τὸν θάνατον αὐτοὺς προετρέπετο ἱκετεύουσα. |
| 16:14 | Ὧ μήτηρ δι εὐσέβειαν θεοῦ στρατιῶτι. πρεσβῦτι καὶ γυνή, διὰ καρτερίαν καὶ τύραννον ἐνίκησας, καὶ ἔργοις δυνατωτέρα καὶ λόγοις εὑρέθης ἂν ἀνδρός. |
| 16:15 | καὶ γὰρ ὅτε συνελήμφθηι μετὰ τῶν παίδων, εἱστήκεις τὸν Ἐλεάζαρον ὁρῶσα βασανιζόμενον, καί ἔλεγες τοῖς παισὶν ἐν τῇ Ἑβραΐδι φωνῇ |
| 16:16 | Ὦ παῖδες, γενναῖος ὁ ἀγών ἐφʼ ὃν κληθέντες ὑπὲρ τῆς διαμαρτυρίας τοῦ ἔθνους, ἐναγωνίσασθε προθύμως ὑπὲρ τοῦ πατρίου νόμου. |
| 16:17 | καὶ γὰρ αἰσχρὸν τὸν μὲν γέροντα τοῖτον ὑπομένειν τὰς διὰ τὴν εὐσέβειαν ἀλγηδόνας, ὑμᾶς δε τοὺς νεωτέρους καταπλαγῆναι τὰς βασάνους. |
| 16:18 | ἀναμνήσθητε ὅτι διο τὸν θεὸν τοῦ κόσμου μετελάβετε, καὶ τοῦ βίου ἀπελαύσατε· |
| 16:19 | καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὀφίλετε πάντα πόνον ὑπομένειν διὰ τὸν θεόν. |
| 16:20 | δι᾿ ὃν καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν Ἀβραὰμ ἔσπευδεν τὸν ἐθυοπάτορα υἱὸν σφαγιάσαι Ἰσαάκ, καὶ τὴν πατρῴαν χεῖρα ξιφηφόρον καταφερομένην ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ὁρῶν οὐκ ἔπτηξεν. |
| 16:21 | καὶ Δανιὴλ ὁ δίκαιος εἰς λέοντας ἐβλήθη· καὶ Ἀνανίας καὶ Ἀζαρίας καὶ Μισαὴλ εἰς κάμινον πυρὸς ἀπεσφενδονήθησαν, καὶ ὑπέμειναν διὰ τὸν θεόν. |
| 16:22 | καὶ ὑμεῖς οὗν τὴν αὐτὴν πίστιν πρὸς τὸν θεὸν ἔχοντες, μὴ χαλεπαίνητε· |
| 16:23 | ἀλόγιστον γὰρ εἰδότας εὐσέβειαν μὴ ἀνθίστασθαι τοῖς πόνοις. |
| 16:24 | Διὰ τούτων τῶν λόγων ἡ ἑπταμήταωρ ἕνα ἕκαστον τῶν υἱῶν παρακαλοῦσα ἔπεισε μᾶλλον ἀποθανεῖν, ἡ παραβῆναι τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ θεοῦ. |
| 16:25 | ἔτι δὲ καὶ ταῦτα ἰδόντες ὅτι διὰ τὸν θεὸν ἀποθανόντες ζῶσιν τῷ θεῷ, ὥσπερ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακώβ, καὶ πάντες οἱ πατριάρχαι. |
Provenance
- title
- IV Maccabees 16 (Greek, Swete)
- dialect
- greek
- source
- Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; IV Maccabees 16; 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
- 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/16.greek.swete.L0.txt
L0 witness
Cite as:
IV Maccabees 16 (Greek, Swete). Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; IV Maccabees 16; 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/16.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.