24
But he being recommended to the king, when he had magnified the appearance of his power, got the high priesthood for himself, by offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver.
25
So having received the king's man- date, he returned bringing nothing worthy of the high priesthood: but having the mind of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.
26
Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being himself undermined, was driven out a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites
27
So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money he had promised to the king he took no care, when Sostratus the governor of the castle called for
28
For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they were both called before the king.