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).

Lysim'achus,

a son of Ptolemaeus of Jerusalem, the Greek translator of the book of Esther. Comp.

Es 9:20