2 Maccabees 11:32-34

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³² And I have also sent Menelaus to encourage you. ³³ Farewell. The one hundred and forty-eighth year,^[a] the fifteenth of Xanthicus.’

³⁴ The Romans also sent them a letter, which read thus:

‘Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, envoys of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greetings.