James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Lysimachus

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James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Lysimachus


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LYSIMACHUS.1. The translator of the Greek edition of Esther into Greek (Ad. Est 11:1). 2. The brother of the high priest Menelaus. He excited the hatred of the populace by his systematic plundering of the Temple treasures, and was finally killed in a riot (2Ma_4:28; 2Ma_4:39-42).