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LYSIAS.—1. A general of Antiochus Epiphanes, charged with a war of extermination against the Jews (1Ma_3:32 ff., cf. 2Ma_10:11; 2Ma_11:1 ff.); defeated at Bethsura (1Ma_4:34 ff.); after the death of Epiphanes he championed the cause of Eupator, and finally suffered death along with the latter at the hands of Demetrius (6:14ff., 63, 1Ma_7:2-4, 2Ma_14:2). Cf. art. Maccabees, § 2.
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