22
The consul wrote the same thing to King Demetrius and to Attalus and Ariarathes and Arsaces,
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and to all the countries, and to Sampsames, and to the Spartans, and to Delos, and to Myndos, and to Sicyon, and to Caria, and to Samos, and to Pamphylia, and to Lycia, and to Halicarnassus, and to Rhodes, and to Phaselis, and to Cos, and to Side, and to Aradus and Gortyna and Cnidus and Cyprus and Cyrene.
24
They also sent a copy of these things to the high priest Simon.
25
King Antiochus besieged Dor for the second time, continually throwing his forces against it and making engines of war; and he shut Trypho up and kept him from going out or in.
26
And Simon sent to Antiochus two thousand picked troops, to fight for him, and silver and gold and a large amount of military equipment.
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