¹⁷ When Lysias learned that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus the king’s^[a] son to reign. Lysias^[b] had brought him up from boyhood; he named him Eupator.^(A)

²⁰ They gathered together and besieged the citadel^[a] in the one hundred fiftieth year, and he built siege towers and engines of war.^(A)

Accession of Antiochus Eupator

¹⁰ Now we will tell what took place under Antiochus Eupator, who was the son of that ungodly man, and will give a brief summary of the principal calamities of the wars.^(A)

¹¹ This man, when he succeeded to the kingdom, appointed one Lysias to have charge of the government and Protarchos to be governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia.^(A)