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Therefore if any pestilent men have fled to you from their country, hand them over to Simon the high priest, that he may punish them according to their law."
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The consul wrote the same thing to Demetrius the king 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.
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They also sent a copy of these things to Simon the high priest.
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Antiochus the king besieged Dor anew, continually throwing his forces against it and making engines of war; and he shut Trypho up and kept him from going out or in.
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And Simon sent to Antiochus two thousand picked men, to fight for him, and silver and gold and much military equipment.
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But he refused to receive them, and he broke all the agreements he formerly had made with Simon, and became estranged from him.
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He sent to him Athenobius, one of his friends, to confer with him, saying, "You hold control of Joppa and Gazara and the citadel in Jerusalem; they are cities of my kingdom.
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You have devastated their territory, you have done great damage in the land, and you have taken possession of many places in my kingdom.
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Now then, hand over the cities which you have seized and the tribute money of the places which you have conquered outside the borders of Judea;
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or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver, and for the destruction that you have caused and the tribute money of the cities, five hundred talents more. Otherwise we will come and conquer you."