I. ANDREW, Captain of the Guards to Ptolemy Philadelphus King of Egypt, who inspired this Prince with a resolution to set at liberty six and twenty thousand Jews who dwelt in his dominions. He was seconded in his request by Aristæus, Zosibius, and Tharentinus, who were likewise of the Guards to Philadelphus. There is no foundation for all this, besides the relation in Aristæus’s history of the seventy Interpreters, which is generally esteemed by learned men to be a fable of his own inventing.
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