The Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees
Chapter IV
For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and was an honourable and good man, after that by slandering him in every way, he could not injure him with the people, went away as an exile, with the intention of betraying his country.
Σιμων γάρ τις πρὸς Ονιαν ἀντιπολιτευόμενος τόν ποτε τὴν ἀρχιερωσύνην ἔχοντα διὰ βίου καλὸν καὶ ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα ἐπειδὴ πάντα τρόπον διαβάλλων ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἔθνους οὐκ ἴσχυσεν κακῶσαι φυγὰς ᾤχετο τὴν πατρίδα προδώσων
Whence coming to Apollonius, the military governor of Syria, and Phœnicia, and Cilicia, he said,