2 Maccabees 4:44-46

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁴ And when the king was come to Tyre, three men were sent from the ancients to plead the cause before him.

⁴⁵ But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade the king to favour him.

⁴⁶ So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind: