1 Maccabees 8:1-2

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

8 Now Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are powerful and strong, and willingly agree to all things that are requested of them: and that whosoever have come to them, they have made amity with them, and that they are mighty in power.

² And they heard of their battles, and their noble acts, which they had done in Galatia, how they conquered them, and brought them under tribute: