“... A. Momigliano, Aegyptus, 1932, p. 161, believes that Aristeas (§37) borrows a phrase from the letter of Demetrius I in 1 Macc 10:37. This assertion presupposes that Aristeas, who had been trained in rhetoric, had eagerly pored over 1 Maccabees, a book full of linguistic inconcinnities. Rather, Aristeas, the translator of 1 Maccabees, and Eupolemus all employ the customary phrases of hellenistic bureaucratic language. A scholar of the stature of J. Freudenthal, Alexander Polyhistor, 1875, p. 110, deduced from these similarities that Eupolemus was the author of Aristeas. ...”

“... appointed to the army … worthy of trust. Cf. 1 Macc 10:37, which has a very similar formulation: “And some of them will be stationed in the large fortresses of the king, and some of these will be assigned to the affairs of the kingdom, which are confidential.” The only phrase that the two texts have in common is “assigned to affairs” – ἐπὶ χρειῶν καθεστάκαμεν (Aristeas) and κατασταθήσονται ἐπὶ χρειῶν – having the same verb and prepositional phrase. Moreover in 1 Macc 10:36, the number 30,000 men would be inducted into the army of Demetrius I, a claimant to the Seleucid throne. On the basis of these similarities, Arnaldo Momigliano argued that Aristeas § 37 was based on 1 Maccabees, but since the rest of the language is so different, direct dependence seems unlikely. ...”