2 Maccabees 14:42-44

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴² Choosing to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of the wicked, and to suffer abuses unbecoming his noble birth.

⁴³ But whereas through haste he missed of giving himself a sure wound, and the crowd was breaking into the doors, he ran boldly to the wall, and manfully threw himself down to the crowd:

⁴⁴ But they quickly making room for his fall, he came upon the midst of the neck.