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On the occasion of the quadrennial games at Tyre in the presence of the king, (2 Maccabees 4, 18)
Apollonius son of Menestheus had been sent to Egypt to attend the wedding of King Philometor. Antiochus, having learnt that the latter had become hostile to his affairs, began thinking about his own safety: that was why he had come to Joppa. He then moved to Jerusalem, (2 Maccabees 4, 21)
When three years had passed, Jason sent Menelaus, brother of the Simon mentioned above, to convey the money to the king and to complete negotiations on various essential matters. (2 Maccabees 4, 23)
But Menelaus, on being presented to the king, flattered him by his own appearance of authority, and so secured the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver. (2 Maccabees 4, 24)
As for Menelaus, he secured the office, but defaulted altogether on the sums promised to the king, (2 Maccabees 4, 27)
although Sostratus, the commandant of the Citadel, whose business it was to collect the revenue, kept demanding payment. The pair of them in consequence were summoned before the king, (2 Maccabees 4, 28)
While all this was going on, it happened that the people of Tarsus and Mallus revolted, because their towns had been given as a present to Antiochis, the king's concubine. (2 Maccabees 4, 30)
The king therefore hurried off to settle the affair, leaving Andronicus, one of his dignitaries, to act as his deputy. (2 Maccabees 4, 31)
On the king's return from the region of Cilicia, the Jews of the capital, and those Greeks who shared their hatred of the crime, appealed to him about the unjustified murder of Onias. (2 Maccabees 4, 36)
When the king came down to Tyre, three men deputed by the Senate pleaded their case before him. (2 Maccabees 4, 44)
Menelaus, seeing the case had gone against him, promised a substantial sum to Ptolemy son of Dorymenes if he would influence the king in his favour. (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
Ptolemy then took the king aside into a colonnade, as though for a breath of fresh air, and persuaded him to change his mind; (2 Maccabees 4, 46)
