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Lysias chose Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s friends;
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Verse 38. Ptolomee. He had been governor of Cyprus, under Philometor, and gave him the revenue only when he was capable of acting for himself. Polyb.—He afterwards betrayed the island to Epiphanes. 2 B. 8.
See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
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