39
With Menelaus' approval, Lysimachus committed many sacrilegious acts against the city. There was a report that he had transported much gold equipment abroad, so the populace gathered together against Lysimachus.
37
Antiochus was deeply grieved, moved to pity and tears, because of the modest behavior and good conduct of the dead man.
38
Burning with anger, he immediately stripped off Andronicus' purple robe, tore off his clothes, and dragged him around the whole city to the place where he had wrongfully killed Onias. There he rid the world of the murderer, giving him the punishment he deserved from the Lord.
39
With Menelaus' approval, Lysimachus committed many sacrilegious acts against the city. There was a report that he had transported much gold equipment abroad, so the populace gathered together against Lysimachus.
40
Because the crowds were aroused and furious, Lysimachus armed three thousand men and incited cruel force under the leadership of a certain Auranus, a man as senseless as he was old.
41
When the people saw Lysimachus' assault, they grabbed stones and blocks of wood—some even took handfuls of ashes—and they hurled these at Lysimachus' men, causing great confusion.