1 Maccabees 15:21-23

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²¹ Therefore if any pestilent men have fled to you from their country, hand them over to Simon the high priest, that he may punish them according to their law.”

²² The consul^[a] wrote the same thing to Deme′trius the king and to At′talus and Ariar′athes and Ar′saces, ²³ and to all the countries, and to Sam′psames,^[b] and to the Spartans, and to Delos, and to Myndos, and to Sic′yon, and to Ca′ria, and to Samos, and to Pamphyl′ia, and to Lyc′ia, and to Halicarnas′sus, and to Rhodes, and to Phase′lis, and to Cos, and to Side, and to Ar′adus and Gorty′na and Cnidus and Cyprus and Cyre′ne.