2 Maccabees 10:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² For Ptolemee that was called Macer, was determined to be strictly just to the Jews, and especially by reason of the wrong that had been done them, and to deal peaceably with them.

¹³ But being accused for this to Eupator by his friends, and being oftentimes called traitor, because he had left Cyprus which Philometor had committed to him, and coming over to Antiochus the Illustrious, had revolted also from him, he put an end to his life by poison.

¹⁴ But Gorgias, who was governor of the holds, taking with him the strangers, often fought against the Jews.