Good News Translation
but whoever is merely writing a summary should be permitted to give a brief account without going into a detailed discussion.

New Revised Standard Version
but the one who recasts the narrative should be allowed to strive for brevity of expression and to forego exhaustive treatment.

Contemporary English Version
But writers who summarize books are allowed to be brief and to leave out many of the details.

New American Bible
To enter into questions and examine them from all sides and to be busy about details is the task of the historian;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For to collect all that is to be known, to put the discourse in order, and curiously to discuss every particular point, is the duty of the author of a history:

For to collect all that is to be known, to put the discourse in order, and curiously to discuss every particular point, is the duty of the author of a history:

2 Maccabees 2:29
Leaving to the authors the exact handling of every particular, and as for ourselves, according to the plan proposed, studying to be brief.

2 Maccabees 2:30
For as the master builder of a new house must have care of the whole building: but he that taketh care to paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning of it: so must it be judged of us.

2 Maccabees 2:32
But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations of things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment.

2 Maccabees 2:33
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.