3 Maccabees 5:32-34

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³² In fact you would have been deprived of life instead of these, if it were not for an affection arising from our nurture in common and your usefulness.’ ³³ So Hermon suffered an unexpected and dangerous threat, and his eyes wavered and his face fell. ³⁴ The king’s Friends one by one sullenly slipped away and dismissed^[a] the assembled people to their own occupations.