Heptateuchos

He holds him in a full embrace and sinks back, so that he may fall with greater force. And having prayed to the Lord, he drew down a vengeful ruin together with his own death. The bereaved father, the brothers, and all the children gather, mourn the dead, and adorn his tomb. [Semada follows this leader; with bold deeds he slays six hundred and brings back happy times.] Meanwhile, Micia seeks a very large talent of silver from his mother. The faithful woman teaches that it is holy and a vow to God, but to be returned at a fixed time; soon she makes high offerings to the saint and the theraphin and a temple to God. And with the folds filled, the lesser-born priest brings gifts to the Lord. After this, Micia reads Judah, and, seeking a seat, he binds himself with the gathered gift of offerings, and, taken up, he merited the sanctuaries of God through his vows. Behold, the tribe of Dan, suddenly seeking new kingdoms, sends five spokesmen from the allied body. They investigate, to test all things, which portion of land is better, where it might then help to establish settlements. While they wander through the woods and track the byways, they come to Judah, sowing words in allied speech: what is he doing, what new rites does he institute? To those asking, after he sets forth what he does, compelled, he consults; he displayed the high commands of the Lord God and heavenly pardon, and praises the ordered ones for departing. These things the returning men taught their own; now in a dense column

Six hundred come. They carry the ephod and the sculpted image and the teraphim, and they ask Luda to stay with them. When Micias prepares to recall the fugitive, he is driven off; the summoned priest refuses to return. Laisa is attacked in war, and with its roofs burned, it loses its seats and denies its citadels to the grieving. The victor’s band stations itself there with zeal and gave it a tribal name; for it is called Dana. There was a certain Levite man who, having no wife, sought intercourse with a slave woman. She, yielding, gave way, sundering the common yoke, and flies far off, hostile, and shuns the spurned partner’s bed. When the husband anxiously wished to recall her, he brought a common servant and beasts of burden with him, coming to his father-in-law and kissing his daughter by agreement; he promises, soothes her gently, and by holding her gradually entices her to stay with him. Soon he, settling down, feasts and rests secure in a peaceful abode. FRAGMENTS OF LOST POEMS. OF THE KINGS. Finally, he touched the sought-for household gods, nevertheless.

Beware now, wretched man, nor, while you do not know and dare, does it creep up and cut a part from the flowing garment. II KINGS ... like the tenderest woodworm ... This man follows Semada as leader, who with bold deeds slays six hundred and brings back happy times. XXIII. Cypr. poet. III KINGS Then, from the repeated sacred rite, walking through the walls of the temple, showing a full belly distended and stuffed with fat. IV KINGS Greater than the purple-clad tyrants in the seat of the Persians. I PARALIPOMENON And, having been divided among my own, I declare just labors; he ordered that with refined gold of no small weight. II PARALIPOMENON, JUDITH, ESTHER JOB Wool-bearing flocks and the warlike youth of horses. OF UNCERTAIN PLACEMENT Yet, despite all these, he persists sufficiently in what you wished. By angelic warning they seek again the kingdoms of Canopus. Nor would the treacherous wolf gnaw away Christ’s lambs. And a captive hand is oppressed by disfiguring servitude. He conferred holy aids of salvation upon the old man.