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And it pleased the people to entertain the men honorably, and to put the copy of their embassage in public records, to the end that the people of the Lacedemonians might have a memorial thereof. Furthermore we have written a copy thereof unto Simon the high priest.'
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After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a great shield of gold of a thousand pound weight to confirm the league with them.
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When the people heard thereof, they said, What thanks shall we give to Simon and his sons?
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For he and his brethren and the house of his father have established Israel, and fought and chased away their enemies from them, and confirmed their liberty.
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So then they wrote it on tablets of brass, which they set upon pillars on Mount Zion. And this is the copy of the writing: The eighteenth day of the month of Elul, in the hundred threescore and twelfth year, being the third year of Simon the high priest,