42
As a result, they wounded many of them, and killed some, and put them all to flight; and the temple robber himself they killed close by the treasury.
43
Charges were brought against Menelaus about this incident.
44
When the king came to Tyre, three men sent by the senate presented the case before him.
45
But Menelaus, already as good as beaten, promised a substantial bribe to Ptolemy son of Dorymenes to win over the king.
46
Therefore Ptolemy, taking the king aside into a colonnade as if for refreshment, induced the king to change his mind.
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