41. But when they perceived the assault of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, others logs of wood, and some took handfuls of the ashes that lay near, and they flung them all pell-mell upon Lysimachus and them that were with him;
42. by reason of which they wounded many of them, and some they struck to the ground, and all of them they forced to flee, but the author of the sacrilege himself they killed beside the treasury.
43. But touching these matters there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.
44. And when the king was come to Tyre, the three men that were sent by the senate pleaded the cause before him.
45. But Menelaus, seeing himself now defeated, promised much money to Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, that he might win over the king.
46. Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a cloister, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:
47. and him that was the cause of all the evil, Menelaus, he discharged from the accusations; but these hapless men, who, if they had pleaded even before Scythians, would have been discharged uncondemned, them he sentenced to death.
48. Soon then did they that were spokesmen for the city and the families of Israel and the holy vessels suffer that unrighteous penalty.
49. For which cause even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial.
50. But Menelaus through the covetous dealings of them that were in power remained still in his office, cleaving to wickedness, as a great conspirator against his fellow-citizens.