the people. Among other devices he caused to be erected close beside the temple-mountain, a gymnasium, after the Greek style, and invited to its frivolous sports, not only the youth of Jerusalem, but found means also, to seduce even the priests from their duties at the altar, that they might be present at its thronged entertainments. But as Jason had unjustly possessed himself of the high priesthood, so he lost it through injustice. Menelaus, another devotee of the new ideas, simply offered Antiochus