reat an army, and advised that they should retire now, and save
themselves and that when he had gathered his own men together, then he
should fall upon the enemy afterwards, his answer was this: "Let not the
sun ever see such a thing, that I should show my back to the enemy and
although this be the time that will bring me to my end, and I must
die in this battle, I will rather stand to it courageously, and bear
whatsoever comes upon me, than by now running away bring reproach upon
my former great actions, or tarnish their glory." This was the speech
he made to those that remained with him, whereby he encouraged them to
attack the enemy.

2. But Bacchldes drew his army out of their camp, and put them in array
for the battle. He set the horsemen on both the wings, and the light
soldiers and the archers he placed before the whole army, but he was
himself on the right wing. And when he had thus put his army in order
of battle, and was going to join battle with the enemy, he commanded the
trumpeter to give a signal of battle, and the army to make a shout, and
to fall on the enemy. And when Judas had done the same, he joined battle
with them; and as both sides fought valiantly, and the battle continued
till sun-set, Judas saw that Bacehides and the strongest part of the
army was in the right wing, and thereupon took the most courageous men
with him, and ran upon that part of the army, and fell upon those that
were there, and broke their ranks, and drove them into the middle, and
forced them to run away, and pursued them as far as to a mountain called
Aza: but when those of the left wing saw that the right wing was put to
flight, they encompassed Judas, and pursued him, and came behind him,
and took him into the middle of their army; so being not able to fly,
but encompassed round about with enemies, he stood still, and he and
those that were with him fought; and when he had slain a great many of
those that came against him, he at last was himself wounded, and fell
and gave up the ghost, and died in a way like to his former famous
actions. When Judas was dead, those that were with him had no one whom
they could regard [as their commander]; but when they saw themselves
deprived of such a general, they fled. But Simon and Jonathan, Judas's
brethren, received his dead body by a treaty from the enemy, and carried
it to the village of Modin, where their father had been buried, and
there buried him; while the multitude lamented him m