Lysimachus (I)

I. LYSIMACHUS, the fifth Son of Ptolemy, a Jew of Jerusalem, who translated the Book of Esther out of Hebrew into Greek. His Translation was carried from Jerusalem to Alexandria by Dositheus, who called himself a Priest of Levi’s Family, and by Ptolemy his Son, in the fourth Year of Ptolemy’s Reign, surnamed Philometor, in the Year of the World 3827, before J. C. 173. before the Vulgar Æra 177. We know nothing particularly relating to the Life of this Lysimachus.

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