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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)
Some Tyrians even were so outraged by the crime that they provided sumptuously for their funeral, (2 Maccabees 4, 49)
while, as a result of the greed of the powerful, Menelaus remained in power, growing more wicked than ever and establishing himself as the chief enemy of his fellow-citizens. (2 Maccabees 4, 50)
At about this time, Antiochus was preparing for his second attack on Egypt. (2 Maccabees 5, 1)
It then happened that all over the city for nearly forty days there were apparitions of horsemen galloping through the air in cloth of gold, troops of lancers fully armed, (2 Maccabees 5, 2)
squadrons of cavalry in order of battle, attacks and charges this way and that, a flourish of shields, a forest of pikes, a brandishing of swords, a hurling of missiles, a glittering of golden accoutrements and armour of all kinds. (2 Maccabees 5, 3)
Then, on the strength of a false report that Antiochus was dead, Jason took at least a thousand men and launched an unexpected attack on the city. When the walls had been breached and the city was finally on the point of being taken, Menelaus took refuge in the Citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
Even so, he did not manage to seize power; and, in the end, his machinations brought him nothing but shame, and he took refuge once more in Ammanitis. (2 Maccabees 5, 7)
His career of wickedness was thus brought to a halt: imprisoned by Aretas, the Arab despot, escaping from his town, hunted by everyone, detested for having overthrown the laws, abhorred as the butcher of his country and his countrymen, he drifted to Egypt. (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
