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2 Maccabees 4:44-46
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 4:44-46
New Catholic Bible
44 When the king came to Tyre, three men sent by the senate pleaded their case before him. 45 Menelaus, realizing that the verdict would go against him, promised Ptolemy, the son of Dorymenes,[a] a substantial sum of money if he would win over the king. 46 Ptolemy therefore took the king aside into a colonnade, as though for a breath of air, and persuaded him to change his mind.
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- 2 Maccabees 4:45 Dorymenes: fought for Ptolemy IV against Antiochus III. His son Ptolemy had been governor of Cyprus and deserted to Antiochus IV (see 2 Mac 10:12f).
