2 Machabees 1:14
For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Etenim cum ea habitaturus venit ad locum Antiochus et amici ejus, et ut acciperet pecunias multas dotis nomine.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὡς γὰρ συνοικῶν αὐτῇ παρεγένετο εἰς τὸν τόπον ὅ τε Ἀντίοχος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ φίλοι, χάριν τοῦ λαβεῖν τὰ χρήματα πλείονα εἰς φερνῆς λόγον·
Haydock's commentary
Dowry. Thus the pagans played with religion. (Menochius)
Anthony having espoused the Minerva of Athens, required the city to give him 1000 talents for her portion. (Dion. Seneca, suasov. 1.)
Heliogabalus and Caligula pretended to marry the celestial Venus or the moon. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.