2 Maccabees 4:45

⁴³Of these matters therefore there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.

⁴⁴Now when the king came to Tyrus, three men that were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him:

— 2 Maccabees 4:45 —

⁴⁶Whereupon Ptolemee taking the king aside into a certain gallery, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:

⁴⁷Insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations, who notwithstanding was cause of all the mischief: and those poor men, who, if they had told their cause, yea, before the Scythians, should have been judged innocent, them he condemned to death.