I. DOSITHEUS, who pretended to be a Priest, and of the Stock of Levi, brought Esth. xi.1.into Egypt the Epistle named Purim, that is to say, the Book of Esther translated into Greek1. We cannot well tell who this Dositheus was. Usher believes him to be the same person, to whom Ptolemy Philometor, King of Egypt, gave the command of his Joseph. contra Appion. l. 2.troops, together with another Jew, whose name was Onias. Dositheus brought the Book of Esther to Alexandria, in the year of the Julian Period 4537, of the World 3827, before Jesus Christ 173, before the Vulgar Æra 177.
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Translators’ note. The Hebrew Original of this Book ends with the third verse of the tenth chapter, which in the Greek copies of it is continued; and from these the Latin Vulgate was translated, which our Author refers to in this Citation. ↩