1 Maccabees 14:23-25

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²³ It has pleased our people to receive these men with honour and to put a copy of their words in the public archives, so that the people of the Spartans may have a record of them. And they have sent a copy of this to the high priest Simon.”’

²⁴ After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a large gold shield weighing one thousand minas, to confirm the alliance with the Romans.^[a]

Official Honours for Simon

²⁵ When the people heard these things they said, ‘How shall we thank Simon and his sons?