2 Maccabees 14:16-18

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁶ Forsooth for the duke commanded, anon (or at once) they (re)moved from thence, and came together to the castle Dessau (or to the town of Adasa).

¹⁷ Simon forsooth, brother of Judas, joined battle with Nicanor, but he was all-broken with (the) sudden coming of (the) adversaries.

¹⁸ Nevertheless Nicanor heard (of) the virtue (or of the might) of Judas’ fellows [or Nevertheless Nicanor hearing the virtue of Judas’ fellows], and greatness of hardiness, which they had for strives of the country (or to fight for the country), and dreaded for to make doom by blood.