2 Maccabees 4:27-29

New Catholic Bible

²⁷ Although Menelaus continued to hold the office of high priest, he failed to make any payments of the money he had promised to the king, despite the insistent demands for payment by Sostratus, the captain of the citadel, ²⁸ who had the responsibility for the collection of revenues. As a result, both men were summoned to appear before the king. ²⁹ Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus as his deputy in the high priesthood, while Sostratus designated Crates, the commander of the Cypriots,^[a] to act in his place.