9
Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the polity of the Hebrews.
7
And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of thy story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even unto death.
8
And it had been a worth thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation,
9
Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the polity of the Hebrews.
10
These also avenged their nation, looking unto God, and enduring torments unto death.
11
For it was truly a divine contest which was carried through by them.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.