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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)
the king then dismissed the charges against Menelaus, the cause of all this evil, while he condemned to death the other poor wretches who, had they pleaded even before Scythians, would have been let off scot-free. (2 Maccabees 4, 47)
When the king came to hear of what had happened, he concluded that Judaea was in revolt. He therefore marched from Egypt, raging like a wild beast, and began by storming the city. (2 Maccabees 5, 11)
Had they not been entangled in many sins, Antiochus too, like Heliodorus when King Seleucus sent him to inspect the Treasury, would have been flogged the moment he arrived and checked in his presumption. (2 Maccabees 5, 18)
the king also sent the Mysarch Apollonius at the head of an army twenty-two thousand strong, with orders to put to death all men in their prime and to sell the women and children. (2 Maccabees 5, 24)
Shortly afterwards, the king sent Gerontes the Athenian to force the Jews to violate their ancestral customs and live no longer by the laws of God; (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
People were driven by harsh compulsion to take part in the monthly ritual meal commemorating the king's birthday; and when a feast of Dionysus occurred, they were forced to wear ivy wreaths and walk in the Dionysiac procession. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
