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'Areios king of the Spartans, to Onias the high priest, greetings. (1 Maccabees 12, 20)
'It has been discovered in records regarding the Spartans and Jews that they are brothers, and of the race of Abraham. (1 Maccabees 12, 21)
On learning that Jonathan and his men were ready to fight, the enemy took fright and, with quaking hearts, lit fires in their bivouac and decamped. (1 Maccabees 12, 28)
Rebuilding the city was a co-operative effort: part of the wall over the eastern ravine had fallen down; he restored the quarter called Chaphenatha. (1 Maccabees 12, 37)
The citizens, accompanied by their wives and children, mounted the ramparts with their garments torn and loudly implored Simon to make peace with them: (1 Maccabees 13, 45)
He kept the towns supplied with provisions and furnished with fortifications, until his fame resounded to the ends of the earth. (1 Maccabees 14, 10)
When it became known in Rome and as far as Sparta that Jonathan was dead, people were deeply grieved. (1 Maccabees 14, 16)
This is the copy of the letter sent by the Spartans: 'The rulers and the city of Sparta, to Simon the high priest and to the elders and priests and the rest of the people of the Jews, greetings. (1 Maccabees 14, 20)
And it was the people's pleasure to receive these personages with honour and to deposit a copy of their statements in the public archives, so that the people of Sparta might preserve a record of them. A copy was also made for Simon the high priest." ' (1 Maccabees 14, 23)
and anyone acting contrary to, or rejecting any article of, these enactments is liable to punishment; (1 Maccabees 14, 45)
since Simon, for his part, has given his assent, and has consented to assume the high-priestly office and to be commander-in-chief and ethnarch of the Jews and their priests, and to preside over all: (1 Maccabees 14, 47)
and to all states, including Sampsames, the Spartans, Delos, Myndos, Sicyon, Caria, Samos, Pamphylia, Lycia, Halicarnassus, Rhodes, Phaselis, Cos, Side, Arados, Gortyn, Cyprus and Cyrene. (1 Maccabees 15, 23)
