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This document about the feast of Purim, said to have been translated by Lysimachus son of Ptolemy, a native of Jerusalem, was first made public in the fourth year of king Ptolemy and queen Cleopatra, by Dosithaeus, who claimed to be a priest of true Levite descent, and his son, who was also called Ptolemy.✻ (Esther 11, 1)
and levied war against king Ptolemy, that could not hold his ground, but fled away, leaving many fallen. (1 Maccabees 1, 19)
Three generals Lysias appointed for the task; Ptolemy son of Dorymenes, Nicanor and Gorgias, nobles all that were high in the royal favour; (1 Maccabees 3, 38)
Hereupon Alexander sent an embassy to Ptolemy, king of Egypt, addressing him in these terms following. (1 Maccabees 10, 51)
And what answer made king Ptolemy? An auspicious day, said he, this day of thy return to the land and throne of thy fathers! (1 Maccabees 10, 55)
So here was king Ptolemy come from Egypt, with his daughter Cleopatra, all the way to Ptolemais, in the hundred and sixty-second year; (1 Maccabees 10, 57)
And now Ptolemy, king of Egypt, levied a great army, countless as sand on the beach, and a fleet besides; to win Alexander’s realm his treacherous design was, and add it to his own. (1 Maccabees 11, 1)
And never a town king Ptolemy entered, but he left a guard of soldiers there. (1 Maccabees 11, 3)
and told him, with malicious intent, how it was Jonathan’s doing; but no word said king Ptolemy. (1 Maccabees 11, 5)
All the cities of the sea-coast, as far as maritime Seleucia, king Ptolemy occupied, and with no friendly purpose towards Alexander; (1 Maccabees 11, 8)
Thus, to find pretext for dethroning his rival, king Ptolemy defamed him; (1 Maccabees 11, 11)
he came out to do battle when the news reached him; but Ptolemy brought up his army, met him with a superior force, and routed him. (1 Maccabees 11, 15)
