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Thus many of them they wounded, and some they struck to the ground, and all of them they forced to flee; but as for the church robber himself, him they killed beside the treasury.
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For these matters, therefore, there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.
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Now when the king came to Tyre, three men who were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him.
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But Menelaus, being now convicted, promised Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes to give him much money if he would pacify the king toward him.
46
Thereupon Ptolemy, taking the king aside into a certain gallery as if it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind,
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insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations who, notwithstanding, was cause of all the mischief. And those poor men, who, if they had told their cause, yea, before the Scythians, should have been judged innocent; them he condemned to death.
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Thus those who pursued the matter for the city, and for the people, and for the holy vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment.
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Therefore even they of Tyre, moved with hatred of that wicked deed, caused them to be honorably buried.
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And so, through the covetousness of those who were in power, Menelaus remained still in authority, increasing in malice and being a great traitor to the citizens.