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Thus many of them they wounded, and some they struck to the ground, and all of them they
forced to flee: but as for the churchrobber himself, him they killed beside the treasury.
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Of these matters therefore there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.
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Now when the king came to Tyrus, three men that were sent from the senate pleaded the cause
before him:
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But Menelaus, being now convicted, promised Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes to give him
much money, if he would pacify the king toward him.
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Whereupon Ptolemee taking the king aside into a certain gallery, as it were to take the air,
brought him to be of another mind:
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Insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations, who notwithstanding was cause
of all the mischief: and those poor men, who, if they had told their cause, yea, before the Scythians,
should have been judged innocent, them he condemned to death.
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Thus they that followed the matter for the city, and for the people, and for the holy vessels,
did soon suffer unjust punishment.
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Wherefore even they of Tyrus, moved with hatred of that wicked deed, caused them to be
honourably buried.
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And so through the covetousness of them that were of power Menelaus remained still in
authority, increasing in malice, and being a great traitor to the citizens.
CHAPTER MACCABEES 5
About the same time Antiochus prepared his second voyage into Egypt:
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And then it happened, that through all the city, for the space almost of forty days, there were
seen horsemen running in the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band of soldiers,
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And troops of horsemen in array, encountering and running one against another, with shaking
of shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of
golden ornaments, and harness of all sorts.
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Wherefore every man prayed that that apparition might turn to good.
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Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though Antiochus had been dead, Jason
took at the least a thousand men, and suddenly made an assault upon the city; and they that were
upon the walls being put back, and the city at length taken, Menelaus fled into the castle:
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But Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering that to get the day of them of
his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him; but thinking they had been his enemies, and
not his countrymen, whom he conquered.
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Howbeit for all this he obtained not the principality, but at the last received shame for the
reward of his treason, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.
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