2 Maccabees 4:39–41

³⁹Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by ^zLysimachus with the ^aconsent of Menelaus, and the ^bbruit thereof was spread abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, many vessels of gold being already carried away. ⁴⁰Whereupon the common people rising, and being filled with rage, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began first to offer violence; one ^cAuranus being the leader, a man far gone in years, and no less in folly. ⁴¹They then seeing the ^ccattempt of Lysimachus, some of them caught stones, some clubs, others taking handfuls of dust, that was next at hand, cast them all together upon ^dLysimachus, and those that set upon them.