4 The previously mentioned Shim’on (Simon), who’d given information about the money against his country, slandered Honyo (Onias), saying that it was he who’d incited Heliodoros and had been the real cause of these evils. 2 He dared to call him a conspirator against the state who was actually the benefactor of the city, the guardian of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws. 3 When his hatred grew so great that even murders were perpetrated through one of Shim’on’s approved agents, 4 Honyo, seeing the danger of the contention, and that Apolonios[fn] the son of Menestheus, the governor of Coele-Syria and Foinikai, was increasing Shim’on’s malice, 5 appealed to the king, not to be an accuser of his fellow-citizens, but looking to the good of all the[fn] people, both public and private; 6 for he saw that without the king’s involvement it was impossible for the state to obtain peace any more, and that Shim’on wouldn’t cease from his madness.