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• Now we shall relate what happened under Antiochus Eupator, the son of that godless man, and shall give a summary of the chief evils caused by the wars. (2 Maccabees 10, 10)

• As a result, he was accused before Eupator by the King's Friends. In fact, on all sides he heard himself called a traitor for having abandoned Cyprus, which Philometor had entrusted to him, and for having gone over to Antiochus Epiphanes. Since he could not command the respect due to his high office, he ended his life by taking poison. (2 Maccabees 10, 13)

• The king's letter read thus: "King Antiochus sends greetings to his brother Lysias. (2 Maccabees 11, 22)

• The king's letter to the people was as follows: "King Antiochus sends greetings to the Jewish senate and to the rest of the Jews. (2 Maccabees 11, 27)

• In the year one hundred and forty-nine, Judas and his men learned that Antiochus Eupator was invading Judea with a large force, (2 Maccabees 13, 1)

• Menelaus also joined them, and with great duplicity kept urging Antiochus on, not for the welfare of his country, but in the hope of being established in office. (2 Maccabees 13, 3)

• But the King of kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the scoundrel. When the king was shown by Lysias that Menelaus was to blame for all the trouble, he ordered him to be taken to Beroea and executed there in the customary local method. (2 Maccabees 13, 4)

• and that he had occupied the country, after doing away with Antiochus and his guardian Lysias. (2 Maccabees 14, 2)