46. Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a cloister, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:
47. and him that was the cause of all the evil, Menelaus, he discharged from the accusations; but these hapless men, who, if they had pleaded even before Scythians, would have been discharged uncondemned, them he sentenced to death.
48. Soon then did they that were spokesmen for the city and the families of Israel and the holy vessels suffer that unrighteous penalty.
49. For which cause even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial.
50. But Menelaus through the covetous dealings of them that were in power remained still in his office, cleaving to wickedness, as a great conspirator against his fellow-citizens.