4
Onias recognized that the rivalry was serious and that Apollonius son of Menestheus, and governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was intensifying the malice of Simon.
5
So he appealed to the king, not accusing his compatriots but having in view the welfare, both public and private, of all the people.
6
For he saw that without the king's attention public affairs could not again reach a peaceful settlement, and that Simon would not stop his folly.
7
When Seleucus died and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias obtained the high priesthood by corruption,
8
promising the king at an interview three hundred sixty talents of silver, and from another source of revenue eighty talents.
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