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Lucius, consul of the Romans, unto King Ptolemy, greeting:
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The Jews' ambassadors, our friends and confederates, came unto us to renew the old friendship and league, being sent from Simon the high priest and from the people of the Jews;
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and they brought a shield of gold of a thousand pounds.
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It seemed also good to us to receive the shield from them.
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If, therefore, there be any pestilent fellows who have fled from their country unto you, deliver them unto Simon the high priest, that he may punish them according to their own law.
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The same things wrote he likewise unto Demetrius the king, and Attalus, to Ariarathes, and Arsaces,
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and to all the countries and to Sampsames, and the Lacedemonians, and to Delos, and Myndos, and Sicyon, and Caria, and Samos, and Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Halicarnassus, and Rhodes, and Phaselis, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus, and Gortyna, and Cnidus, and Cyprus, and Cyrene.
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And the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.
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So Antiochus the king encamped against Dor the second day, assaulting it continually and making engines, by which means he shut in Trypho, that he could neither go out nor in.
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At that time Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to aid him, silver also and gold and much armor.