1. Why delay you, O tyrant? for we are readier to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers.
2. And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.
3. O tyrant, counsellor of law-breaking, do not, hating us as you do, pity us more than we pity ourselves.
4. For we account escape to be worse than death.
5. And you think to scare us, by threatening us with death by tortures, as though you had learned nothing by the death of Eleazar.