1 Maccabees 15:20-22

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁰ And it has seemed good to us to accept the shield from them. ²¹ Therefore if any scoundrels have fled to you from their country, hand them over to the high priest Simon, so that he may punish them according to their law.’

²² The consul^[a] wrote the same thing to King Demetrius and to Attalus and Ariarathes and Arsaces,