2 Maccabees 8:6-8

Wycliffe Bible

⁶ And he above-came to castles and cities, unwarned (or And he came unannounced into towns and cities), and burnt them (up); and occupied covenable (or opportune) places, and gave not few slayings of (his) enemies.

⁷ Soothly in (the) nights he was most borne to seek out runnings; and fame of his virtue was shed out, either showed, everywhere.

⁸ Forsooth Philip saw, that the man by little and little came to increase, and that full often things befell to him in prosperity; and he wrote to Ptolemy, duke of Celosyria and Phenice (or to Ptolemeus, the governor of Greater Syria and Phoenicia), that he should bear help to the king’s needs.