Good News Translation
In spite of all this, no Roman ever tried to advance his own position by wearing a crown or putting on royal robes.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet for all this not one of them has put on a crown or worn purple as a mark of pride,

Contemporary English Version
its rulers don't show off by wearing crowns or purple robes.

New American Bible
Yet with all this, none of them put on a diadem or wore purple as a display of grandeur.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby.

And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby.

1 Maccabees 8:12
But with their friends, and such as relied upon them, they kept amity, and had conquered kingdoms that were near, and that were far off: for all that heard their name, were afraid of them.

1 Maccabees 8:13
That whom they had a mind to help to a kingdom, those reigned: and whom they would, they deposed from the kingdom: and they were greatly exalted.

1 Maccabees 8:15
And that they had made themselves a senate house, and consulted daily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in counsel always for the people, that they might do the things that were right:

1 Maccabees 8:16
And that they committed their government to one man every year, to rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy nor jealousy amongst them.