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.