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.
47
Menelaus, the cause of all the trouble, he acquitted of the charges against him, while he sentenced to death those unfortunate men, who would have been freed uncondemned if they had pleaded even before Scythians.
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