34. We are now only making use of this opportunity to recover our ancestral heritage.
35. As for Joppa and Gezer, which you claim, we will give you 3.4 tonnes of silver, in spite of the fact that the people of those cities have done great harm to our nation.”Athenobius made no reply,
36. but he returned to the king in a rage. When he told the king what Simon had said, and reported on the splendour of Simon's court and all that he had seen, the king became violently angry.
37. In the meantime, Trypho had boarded a ship and escaped to the town of Orthosia.
38. King Antiochus appointed Cendebeus as commander of the coastal area, provided him with infantry and cavalry,