3 Maccabees 5:2-4

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² and ordered him on the following day to drug all the elephants—five hundred in number—with large handfuls of frankincense and plenty of unmixed wine and to drive them in, maddened by the lavish abundance of drink, so that the Jews might meet their doom. ³ When he had given these orders he returned to his feasting, together with those of his Friends and of the army who were especially hostile toward the Jews.^{(A) 4} And Hermon, keeper of the elephants, proceeded faithfully to carry out the orders.^(B)