4 Maccabees 17:23-24

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²³ For the tyrant Antiochus, when he saw the courage of their virtue and their endurance under the tortures, proclaimed them to his soldiers as an example for their own endurance, ²⁴ and this made them brave and courageous for infantry battle and siege, and he ravaged and conquered all his enemies.