4 Maccabees

If then, the seven brethren despised troubles even unto death, it is confessed on all sides that righteous reasoning is absolute master over the passions.

εἰ δὲ τοίνυν τῶν μέχρι θανάτου πόνων ὑπερεφρόνησαν οἱ ἑπτὰ ἀδελφοί συνομολογεῖται πανταχόθεν ὅτι αὐτοδέσποτός ἐστιν τῶν παθῶν ὁ εὐσεβὴς λογισμός

For just as if, had they as slaves to the passions eaten of the unholy, we should have said that they had been conquered by them;

εἰ γὰρ τοῖς πάθεσι δουλωθέντες ἐμιαροφάγησαν ἐλέγομεν ἂν τούτοις αὐτοὺς νενικῆσθαι