29
And Menelaus was removed from the priesthood, Lysimachus his brother succeeding: and Sostratus was made governor of the Cyprians.
30
When these things were in doing, it fell out that they of Tharsus and Mallos raised a sedition, because they were given for a gift to Antiochis, the king's concubine.
31
The king therefore went in all haste to appease them, leaving Andronicus, one of his nobles, for his deputy.
32
Then Menelaus supposing that he had found a convenient time, having stolen certain vessels of gold out of the temple, gave them to Andronicus, and others he had sold at Tyre, and in the neighbouring cities.
33
Which when Onias understood most certainly, he reproved him, keeping him- self in a safe place at Antioch beside Daphne.