29
Then he saw that the money in the treasury was exhausted, and that the revenues from the country were small because of the dissension and disaster that he had caused in the land by abolishing the laws that had existed from the earliest days.
30
He feared that he might not have such funds as he had before for his expenses and for the gifts that he used to give more lavishly than preceding kings.
31
He was greatly perplexed in mind; then he determined to go to Persia and collect the revenues from those regions and raise a large fund.
32
He left Lysias, a distinguished man of royal lineage, in charge of the king's affairs from the river Euphrates to the borders of Egypt.
33
Lysias was also to take care of his son Antiochus until he returned.
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