8. having promised to the king at an audience three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and out of another fund eighty talents;
9. and beside this, he undertook to assign a hundred and fifty more, if it might be allowed him through the king’s authority to set him up a Greek place of exercise and form a body of youths to be trained therein, and to register the inhabitants of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch.
10. And when the king had given assent, and he had gotten possession of the office, he forthwith brought over them of his own race to the Greek fashion.