1 Why delay you, O tyrant? for we are readier to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers.
2 And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.
3 O tyrant, counsellor of law-breaking, do not, hating us as you do, pity us more than we pity ourselves.
4 For we account escape to be worse than death.