22
The consul wrote the same thing to Demetrius the king and to Attalus and Ariarathes and Arsaces,
23
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.
24
They also sent a copy of these things to Simon the high priest.
25
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.
26
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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