Lysimachus (II)

II. LYSIMACHUS, the Brother of Menelaus, High-Priest of the Jews. Menelaus purchased the High Priesthood with a large Sum of Money, which he promised Antiochus Epiphanes, but he took no Care to pay it, and thereupon was cited to appear at Antioch. In his Absence he left his Brother Lysimachus at Jerusalem¹, who in Order to raise the Sums for which his 2 Macc. iv. 39, 40, &c.Brother was indebted, began to pillage the Treasury of the Temple. The People rose and would have prevented him; but he let three Thousand Men loose upon them, who killed a great Number of them. Hereupon the People arming themselves with every Thing which they could lay Hands on, some taking Stones, others Clubs, and others throwing Handfuls of Dust, which was in the Court of the Temple, at Lysimachus; this sacrilegious Man was himself killed near the Temple Treasury. He is sometimes reckoned among the High Priests, because he was Vicegerent to his Brother Menelaus: But he never was himself possessed of the High Priesthood.

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