2 Maccabees 4:45-47

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁵ But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade the king to favour him.

⁴⁶ So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind:

⁴⁷ So Menelaus who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death.