38
And being inflamed to anger, he commanded Andronicus to be stripped of his purple, and to be led about through all the city: and that in the same place wherein he had committed the impiety against Onias, the sacrilegious wretch should be put to death, the Lord repaying him his deserved punishment.
39
Now when many sacrileges had been committed by Lysimachus in the temple by the counsel of Menelaus, and the rumour of it was spread abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, a great quantity of gold being already carried away.
40
Wherefore the multitude making an insurrection, and their minds being filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began to use violence, one Tyrannus being captain, a man far gone both in age, and in madness.
41
But when they perceived the attempt of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, some strong clubs: and some threw ashes upon Lysimachus,
42
And many of them were wounded, and some struck down to the ground, but all were put to flight: and as for the sacrilegious fellow himself, they slew him beside the treasury.
43
Now concerning these matters, an accusation was laid against Menelaus.
44
And when the king was come to Tyre, three men were sent from the ancients to plead the cause before him.
45
But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade the king to favour him.
46
So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind:
47
So Menelaus who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death.
48
Thus they that prosecuted the cause for the city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment.