4. But the King of kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the scoundrel. When the king was shown by Lysias that Menelaus was to blame for all the trouble, he ordered him to be taken to Beroea and executed there in the customary local method.
5. There is at that place a tower seventy-five feet high, full of ashes, with a circular rim sloping down steeply on all sides toward the ashes.
6. Anyone guilty of sacrilege or notorious for certain other crimes is brought up there and then hurled down to destruction.
7. In such a manner was Menelaus, that transgressor of the law, fated to die, deprived even of burial.