hough he were suspected by him) persuaded him to come forth out of
the sanctuary, and immediately slew him, without any regard to justice.

4:35. For which cause not only the Jews, but also the other nations,
conceived indignation, and were much grieved for the unjust murder of so
great a man.

4:36. And when the king was come back from the places of Cilicia, the
Jews that were at Antioch, and also the Greeks, went to him: complaining
of the unjust murder of Onias.

4:37. Antiochus, therefore, was grieved in his mind for Onias, and being
moved to pity, shed tears, remembering the sobriety and modesty of the
deceased.

4:38. And being inflamed to anger, he commanded Andronicus to be
stripped of his purple, and to be led about through all the city: and
that in the same place wherein he had committed the impiety against
Onias, the sacrilegious wretch should be put to death, the Lord repaying
him his deserved punishment.

4:39. Now when many sacrileges had been committed by Lysimachus in the
temple, by the counsel of Menelaus, and the rumour of it was spread
abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, a
great quantity of gold being already carried away.

4:40. Wherefore the multitude making an insurrection, and their minds
being filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and
began to use violence, one Tyrannus being captain, a man far gone both
in age and in madness.

4:41. But when they perceived the attempt of Lysimachus, some caught up
stones, some strong clubs, and some threw ashes upon Lysimachus.

4:42. And many of them were wounded, and some struck down to the ground,
but all were put to flight: and as for the sacrilegious fellow himself,
they slew him beside the treasury.

4:43. Now concerning these matters, an accusation was laid against
Menelaus.

4:44. And when the king was come to Tyre, three men were sent from the
ancients to plead the cause before him.

4:45. But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much
money to persuade the king to favour him.

Ptolemee... The son of Dorymenus, a favourite of the king.

4:46. So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as
it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind:

4:47. So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him
of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their
cause even before Scythians, should have been judge