10
For they were both just and temperate, and manly, and high-minded, and fond of their brethren, and so fond of their mother that even unto death they obeyed her by observing the law.
11
And yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle.
12
But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion.
13
O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection!
14
At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.