CALLISTHENES, one of the King of Syria’s Officers, who set fire to the Temple -gates in the time of the Maccabees. But on the day, when the Festival was celebrated at Jerusalem, in commemoration of the victories obtained over Antiochus’s Generals by Judas Maccabæus, the people having discovered Callisthenes, who had fled into an house for safety, set fire to it 2 Macc. viii. 33.and burnt him in it.
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