SOSTRATUS. He commanded the Fortress that the Greeks had built in the upper City of Jerusalem, for Antiochus Epiphanes.1 He having earnestly press’d, but to little Purpose, the Highpriest Menelaus to go with the Money that he ow’d King Antiochus; was sent for to Antioch with the same Menelaus, and had the Government of the Isle of Cyprus bestow’d on him. Thus it is in the Latin Text; but the Greek reads it,2 Sostratus left in his Place, (in the Citadel of Jerusalem) Crates, who had been (or then was) Governor of Cyprus, or Commander of the Troops that the King of Syria had then in that Island.
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