2 Maccabees 11:32-34

Revised Standard Version

³² And I have also sent Menela′us to encourage you. ³³ Farewell. The one hundred and forty-eighth year,^[a] Xan′thicus fifteenth.”

³⁴ The Romans also sent them a letter, which read thus:

“Quintus Mem′mius and Titus Man′ius, envoys of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greeting.