II. DOSITHEUS, an Officer in Judas 2 Macc. xii. 19, 20,21,&c.Maccabæus’s troops, was sent to force the garrison which Timotheus had left in the fortress of Characa, in the Country of the Tubienians. We do not know whether he is the same Dositheus, who is named in the same chapter of the second book of
2 Macc. xii. 35.Maccabees, and who is there said to belong to Bacenor; and that having seized on Gorgias, as he was attempting to take him alive, a Thracian on horse-back fell upon him, cut off his shoulder, and gave Gorgias an opportunity to fly to Marisa.