²⁹ Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus as deputy in the high priesthood, while Sostratus left Crates, the commander of the Cyprian troops.^(A)

³² But Menelaus, thinking he had obtained a suitable opportunity, stole some of the gold vessels of the temple and gave them to Andronicus; other vessels, as it happened, he had sold to Tyre and the neighboring cities.^(A)

⁶ There they all push to destruction anyone guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes.^(A)

⁷ By such a fate it came about that Menelaus the lawbreaker died, without even burial in the earth.^(A)