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2 Maccabees 4:45-47
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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. 47 Menelaus, the cause of all the trouble, the king acquitted of all the charges against him. But he condemned to death those unfortunate men who had brought forward the accusations and who would have been adjudged as innocent and set free even if they had pleaded their case before the Scythians.[b]

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  1. 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).
  2. 2 Maccabees 4:47 Scythians: people who lived in present-day southern Russia and were known for their brutality.
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