2 Maccabees 4:45

45 But Menelaus, being now convicted, promised Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes to give him much money if he would pacify the king toward him.

2 Maccabees 4:45 In-Context

43 For these matters, therefore, there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.

44 Now when the king came to Tyre, three men who were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him.

45 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,

47 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.