2 Maccabees 2:33

2 translations of 23 that include the deuterocanon

Clementine Vulgate 1598

Hinc ergo narrationem incipiemus: de præfatione tantum dixisse sufficiat. Stultum etenim est ante historiam effluere, in ipsa autem historia succingi.

Douay-Rheims 1899

Here then we will begin the narration: let this be enough by way of a preface: for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.