1
This Simon now, of whom we spoke before, having been a betrayer of the money and of his country, slandered Onias as if he had provoked Heliodorus and been the worker of these evils.
2
Thus was he bold to call him a traitor who had served well the city and protected his own nation, and was so zealous for the laws.
3
But when their hatred went so far that murders were committed by one of Simon's faction,
4
Onias, seeing the danger of this contention and that Apollonius, being the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, raged and increased Simon's malice,
5
he went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both public and private.
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