1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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II Maccabees 5:24 And whereas he was set against the Jews, he sent that hateful prince, Apollonius, with an army of two and twenty thousand men, commanding him to kill all that were of perfect age, and to sell the women and the younger sort.

He. Syriac, "Epiphanes." --- Hateful. Greek musarchen, (Haydock) "prince of Mysia," (Grotius) or of sinners. (Haydock)