1 Maccabees 8:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹ When the Greeks devised a plan to attack and destroy them, ¹⁰ the Romans got wind of it and sent against them a single general.^[a] In the ensuing battle many of the Greeks were wounded and fell, and the Romans took captive their wives and children, tore down their strongholds, and enslaved them, a status that they endure even to the present day. ¹¹ All of the other kingdoms and islands that opposed them they destroyed and subjugated.