1
And more that this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love.
2
O reasonings more royal than a king, and freer than freemen!
3
Sacred and harmonious concert of the seven brethren as concerning piety!
4
None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death.
5
But all of them, as though running the road to immortality, hastened on to death through tortures.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.